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Girls Getting on Board a Boat, from the illustrated book Flowers of the Four Seasons

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Woodblock print of three women boarding a boat. The woman in front wears a dark hat with a yellow band, a brown kimono with a pink obi, and a patterned shawl. She faces left, looking down at a woman on the boat. This woman wears a yellow hat and a patterned kimono. She looks up at the woman standing. A third woman with a red obi sits on the boat facing the two women. The boat is on a dock with railings. There are stacked boxes on the right.

Artwork details

Date:
1801
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
600 × 419 px
Museum record:
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