Kasumi-ori Musume Hinagata

Kasumi-ori Musume Hinagata (霞織娘雛形, "Model Young Women in Mist") is a print series by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro.

Ukiyo-e art flourished in Japan during the Edo period from the 17th to 19th centuries, and took as its primary subjects courtesans, kabuki actors, and others associated with the "floating world" lifestyle of the pleasure districts.

[4] Utamaro experimented with line, colour, and printing techniques to bring out subtle differences in the features, expressions, and backdrops of subjects from a wide variety of class and background.

[9] The translucent effect in the prints required the highest level of skill from their carvers[9] and careful moderation of the baren burnishing tool by the printers.

The woman who stands in front of the screen wears her hair in a shiitake-tabo [ja], a hairstyle asocciated with the women-in-waiting at high-ranked samurai homes.

[7] In Natsu Ishō (夏衣装, "Summer clothing"), an elegantly-dressed woman standing in the foreground holds a kanzashi hairpin with her right hand to her hair,[9] which is made up in a baimage [ja] hairstyle.