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Kuronushi from the series The New Six Immortal Poets

Chōbunsai Eishi

Cleveland Museum of Art

A color print of three people: one man and two women. The man is sitting inside a black box with his hands on the inside of the lid. The man and the woman on the left are wearing traditional Japanese clothing in shades of brown, white and black; the woman on the right stands wearing a black kimono; her kimono has white dots and lines throughout and she has a salmon pink sash tied on her left side; she also wears a black and gold hairstyle accessory in her hair and holds another like it in her left hand; she has her right hand raised next to her head; a round inset shows a man; there are several vertical columns of Japanese characters throughout.

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627 × 900 px
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