This print depicts a young woman who has just taken her bath and sits, draped, on a veranda. Her servant, who is rubbing her back, turns toward the clock as it chimes. The scene refers to the image 'The Evening Gong at Qingliang Temple', one of the subjects of the classical canon of Eight Views of Xiaoxiang (China, 11th cent.), transposed here to the daily life of a Japanese woman in the 18th century. Refined beauties (bijin) are a favourite subject of the Japanese prints (ukiyo-e) that flourished in Edo (present-day Tokyo) in the 18th century. Suzuki Harunobu is a key artist, since he was the first to have his work published in full colour on a commercial scale.