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About this work

You see two women and a boy in a room, all dressed in bright kimonos with tiny patterns. This print was made cheaply—hundreds could be pulled from one carved wood block. That meant ordinary people in 1700s Japan could buy it and hang it at home. The faces are simple, almost like stickers, but the fabrics feel real because of tiny, crisscrossed lines called cross-hatching. Look up cross-hatching next.