Two-panel Japanese woodblock print of women on a teahouse veranda by the water, with boats, a hanging lantern, and a seated woman fanning herself.

The Sixth Month, Evening Cool in a Teahouse, Twelve Months in the Southern Quarter

A two-panel color woodblock print showing women on a riverside teahouse veranda in the evening, with sailing boats on the water and a paper lantern. In the left panel a seated woman fans herself beside a lacquer tray while two standing women talk; at right a woman in orange robes stands beside a kneeling figure in black.

Artist: Torii Kiyonaga
Date: About 1783
Medium: Color woodblock prints; oban diptych
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1237 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1789).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection

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The Sixth Month, Evening Cool in a Teahouse, Twelve Months in the Southern Quarter

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