and suggestive poses. In the centre sits an older woman with shaved eyebrows, indicating she is married. She holds one end of a red obi sash decorated with a hemp-leaf pattern; a young woman in the right print holds the other end. They fold it as they take measurements. In front of the women in the right print a young boy shows a cat its reflection in a hand mirror and laughs; the threatened cat's hair stands on end. An adolescent girl in the back of the middle print gazes in an insect cage, possibly at a firefly or cricket. In the left print an aproned child climbs onto the lap of another young woman, playing with a round hand fan. The child crawls at the woman's groin and spreads her legs. The woman holds up a deep blue, dot-patterned, translucent, silk gauze before her face. The skill required to reproduce the translucent effect of the cloth via woodblock printing has gained the prints a particularly high critical regard. Known copies Copies of the set reside in the collections of the Tokyo National Museum, the Hiraki Ukiyo-e Foundation in Yokohama, Mizuta Art Museum in Saitama Prefecture, the Japan Ukiyo-e Museum in Nagano Prefecture, the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin, the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, the New York Public Library, the Worcester Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. The British Museum has two sets, and the Galerie Berès has a copy of the left sheet. Notes References Works cited External links 1794 prints 1795 prints Triptychs Works by Kitagawa Utamaro