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Yaoya O Shichi Standing, Holding a Love Letter and a Battledore

Okumura Masanobu

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A woman in a kimono, with a large patterned robe with a circular emblem on the right side; she wears a smaller kimono underneath on her right arm and has a decorative headpiece on her black hair; she holds a love letter in her left hand and a battledore in her right; the image is in black and yellow ink on beige paper.

Artwork Details

Date
ca. 1748
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
231 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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