Beauty with Dragon Obi
Mihata Jôryû
1830
- Medium
- Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 43 3/8 × 21 13/16 in. (110.17 × 55.4 cm) (image) 75 3/4 × 26 7/16 in. (192.41 × 67.15 cm) (without roller)
- Genre
- Painting
Tags
Japan
About
Mihata Jōryū’s paintings of beautiful women with well-defined features and luxuriously designed kimonos were very fashionable, even in trendy Edo (modern-day Tokyo). The black obi, or sash, worn by this stylish woman is decorated with a dragon placed amid stylized, curly clouds.
![Geisha [right of a triptych of Three Beauties]](https://1.api.artsmia.org/117170.jpg)
![Peeking Boy [right of the pair Kyoto Maiden and Peeking Boy]](https://1.api.artsmia.org/116865.jpg)
![City Girl [left of a triptych of Three Beauties]](https://1.api.artsmia.org/117172.jpg)
![Kyoto Maiden [left of the pair Kyoto Maiden and Peeking Boy]](https://1.api.artsmia.org/116866.jpg)
![Courtesan [center of a triptych of Three Beauties]](https://1.api.artsmia.org/117171.jpg)
