Utamaro "Young Woman Blowing a Popen" (glass noisemaker) Famous Places of Sixty-odd Provinces and the piece emanates a

and the piece emanates a sense of tranquility and elegance

flowing light

allowing you to enjoy it in two ways depending on the season or occasion

shrunken grain

one might gently slide it aside to create a narrow gap to appreciate the view

Utamaro "Young Woman Blowing a Popen" (glass noisemaker) Famous Places of Sixty-odd Provinces and the piece emanates aThis 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. Girl Blowing a Glass Toy Ten Physiognomic Aspects of Women