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Edo Hakkei no Zu

Utagawa Toyoharu

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts a landscape-oriented rectangular artwork. The artwork features a Japanese-style landscape with numerous buildings, trees, and people. The dominant colors are shades of orange, brown, and black. The artwork shows a bird's-eye view of a town or city with many small buildings, some with orange roofs, and winding paths. There are several boats on waterways throughout the scene. The artwork includes Japanese characters written vertically along the right and left edges. A color palette ruler is placed at the bottom of the image, with a gray and black gradient. A handwritten note is in the bottom-right corner.

Artwork Details

Date
ca. 1780
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
600 × 445 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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