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The Minister Toru Daijin Standing by a Lake Beneath a Crescent Moon, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry

Katsushika Hokusai

Cleveland Museum of Art

A vertical rectangular image with a beige border and a beige background. In the top third, a blue and pink sky with a crescent moon. Below the sky, a pink body of water with a distant shoreline and a mountain range. On the right, a tree trunk with dark green leaves slopes down to the center. The bottom two-thirds features a gray foreground with trees on the bottom and right. Three men dressed in traditional Japanese clothing are on the left side. The standing man on the left wears a white robe with blue flowers and a black hat. A man sits on the right, wearing a blue robe with white flowers. A man stands beside him wearing a white robe. Two boats are on the water on the right. Japanese characters are written vertically on the right side. A white vertical rectangle with Japanese characters is in the top left corner.

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415 × 900 px
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