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A colored woodblock print (nishiki-e) from the famous series "Twelve Months in the South" (美南見十二候, Minami jūni kō), created by the master of the Torii school, Torii Kiyonaga. The print depicts a scene from the ninth month (September) - in the middle of the interior we see three women. One bends over a scroll with calligraphy, the second watches her, and the third stands at a latticed window, from where she observes the autumn full moon and the night landscape with boats in the distance. The series "Twelve Months in the South" is one of Kiyonaga's most important cycles and the pinnacles of the bijin-ga genre (depictions of beautiful women), which capture the ideal of feminine elegance of the Edo period.
