Two Women Under an Umbrella, Edo period (1615?1868), 1790s, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 14 3/4 in. (37. 5 cm) ; W. 9 5/8 in. (24. 4 cm), Prints, Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753? ?1806), The huge form of an umbrella accentuates the half-length figures of a geisha and her maid, carrying a shamisen case. It is night, and they walk into the driving rain. The heavy, steady rain is rendered in fine ink lines over the background of darkness, bisected by an angular swath of soft light from the lantern