Bride

Artists

Description

A hanging scroll featuring a painting depicting a female figure dressed as a bride. The figure is shown in profile from the waist up. She wears a pink kimono with a white fan design, over red and white under kimonos. The figure’s face is painted white and her gaze is downward. Over her black hair she wears a wide, white headdress known as a tsunokakushi. Gold pins in the shape of cranes and flowers are placed in her hair. The background is blank.

Dimensions

overall with rollers: H. 152.5 cm × 78.6 cm (60 1/16 × 30 15/16 in.)

Provenance

[Kazuko Kato, Tokyo, Japan (by 1996)], sold; to Patricia Ann Salmon, Hilo, HI (1996-2022) and Julia Meech, New York, NY (1996-2025), sold; through [Scholten Japanese Art, New York, NY, 2025]; to Harvard Art Museums, 2025.