The "beautiful woman" theme was a staple of Japanese genre paintings and the woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e. These figures wear the coiffure and loose outer robe sashed in black popular among courtesans during the Kanbun era (1661-1673). The top layer of the inner kimono is decorated with a scrolling vine motif commonly called karakusa, or Tang arabesque, believed to derive from 8th-century Chinese traditions.