Mitate Kikujido Item Number: 795/78 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Rectangular, multicoloured woodcut print. Print is of Mitate Kikujido, a female character from a Noh play, who attained everlasting youth by taking the dew of the chrysanthemum. She wears a pink kimono and sits upon yellow ground beside a rushing white stream. Lining the stream are pink and yellow chrysanthemums. The background is a pink sky.