Scene outside an office for servant placement with the entrance to a female bathhouse. An older woman talks to a nanny with baby and other working women. Two young town geisha (machigeisha) and flower seller walk past the baths Handcoloured ukiyo-e woodblock print by Toyokuni Utagawa from Shikitei Sanba’s Ehon Imayo Sugata (Picture Book of the Modern Forms and Figures, Tokyo, 1916. Reprint of the original from 1802.

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Size: 6596px × 4325px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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