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Album of Eighty-eight Prints from the series Ogura Imitations of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu)

Utagawa Hiroshige

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorful woodblock print of a woman in traditional Japanese clothing. The woman wears a blue kimono with white and yellow flowers and red accents. Her hair is pulled back into a low ponytail. She stands in a landscape with bare trees and a building in the background. A beige rectangle at the top contains Japanese text in black ink. A vertical beige rectangle on the right side also contains Japanese text. The background of the print is a mottled gray color.

Artwork Details

Date
about 1845–48
Medium
Album of 88 woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
415 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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