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Item number N2.1174 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Print showing a scene with a man and a woman. The woman is resting on the floor with her body angled toward the left while her head is turned up to the right. She is holding a long white cloth in her upraised left hand and a blue mirror(?) in her right hand. Her robe has a green floral print. The man is standing on the right rolling his right sleeve up with his left hand. His head is turned down toward the left side. He is wearing a robe with a brown, grey, and black striped pattern. In the upper right corner, there is a wall with wallpaper, a window, and straw. The background is white. The print is made of two vertically rectangular pieces adhered to a horizontally rectangular paper. Each has sets of Japanese characters: the artist's signature, a circular red seal, and on the right side two circular black censor seals.

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Prints have circular black censor seals, known as aratame-in (改印) or kiwame-in (極印). Signed Hanmoto no ōju Toyokuni ga (梓元ノ応需豊国画) with a red circular seal known as toshidama-in (年玉印).