A woman rinses her hands at a stone water basin in the cold

A woman bends forward, both hands cupped under a stream of water pouring from a bamboo pipe into a stone basin, a small pine or bonsai arrangement beside it. She wears a red kimono patterned with white flowering vines beneath a purple-and-white striped robe, and grips a white cloth in her teeth against the cold. A cartouche at upper right names the series and subtitle, identifying her as a Bunka-era (1804-18) concubine. The artist's signature and a round red seal sit within a panel at right, on a plain pale ground.

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892) was the last major master of ukiyo-e, working through the upheaval of the Meiji era. A pupil of Kuniyoshi, he moved from violent early war prints to the psychological intensity of his mature series — One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (1885–92) and New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts — in which history, legend and theatre are staged by moonlight. His draughtsmanship and unusual use of colour carried the woodblock print into the modern period. His prints are held by the British Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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