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Crab with Sheaf of Grain, Design Five from Shazanrō Picture Book

Tani Bunchō

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image shows an open book with a drawing of a crab on two pages. The book is open to two pages that are connected in the middle. The pages are off-white and rectangular with a thin black border around the drawings. The drawing on the left page and right page is a crab viewed from above, with its shell, legs, and claws visible. The crab's shell has a brown and gray color with a pattern. The crab holds a brown sheaf of grain or wheat in its claws on the left page. The pages have a red seal or stamp in the bottom-left corner of the left page. The book's cover is visible on the sides and has a gold, blue, and white pattern. The background of the image is light grey.

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900 × 719 px
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