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Revelers Returned from the Tori no Machi Festival at Asakusa, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Utagawa Hiroshige

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A white cat sits on a ledge looking outside through a large multi-paned window. The window has a view of a mountain in the distance with a pink and blue sky. There are buildings and vegetation in the midground. The bottom of the wall outside the window is dark blue with white designs. A blue garment hangs off the ledge. The floor is green with a piece of white fabric on it. The wall to the right of the window is beige and has two vertical red banners with black Japanese writing. There is a small rectangular beige label with Japanese writing in the top-right corner of the image.

Artwork Details

Date
1857
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
420 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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