Utamaro "Young Woman Blowing a Popen" (glass noisemaker)

This portrait shows a healthy young woman with a Taka-shimada coiffure, playing with a glass toy, known as a biidoro. This thin glass object has a bulb covered with a thin diaphragm at one end and a pipe at the other. When the pipe is blown or sucked the diaphragm makes soft popping sound. The women dose not appear to belong any particular social classification.

喜多川歌麿「婦女人相十品 ビードロを吹く娘」

Girl Blowing a Glass Toy -Ten Physiognomic Aspects of Women-

Print Size: H 15.2" × W 10.2" / H 38.5 cm × W 25.8 cm
Paper: Echizen Kizuki Hosho Washi made by Living National Treasure, Ichibei Iwano