#uliyo-e

[art-mirrors-art]

Utagawa Kunisada - Shiro (白), or White, from the series 'Five colors of the floating world' (1844) Notice a brush with white powder laying at the mirror; we also see the word 白 (shiro, white) - written on the top of the cartouche (tanzaku) stylized as an animal head (lion or perhaps baku)

[geritsel]

Kobayashi Kiyochika - The Winter Moon, Kinryuzan Viewed from the Banks of the Sumida River, color woodblock print from the series Views of Japan. 1929.