Unbekannter Fotograf

In this staged view, an older woman with an umbrella is depicted next to three younger, adolescent girls. The garden may be that of a private house or it may be the garden of a restaurant or tea house, where women of lower social status often found employment. We can see how younger women typically wore colourful kimonos, accentuating their age, whereas kimono patterns and colouration became more conservative with age.