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Actor Sawamura Kodenji as a Woman at the Time of the Tanabata Festival

Torii Kiyonobu I

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Japanese woodblock print of a man dressed as a woman; woman's kimono has a large black flower on the front; man wearing a large hat; background with a city on the hill; vertical writing in the bottom right corner; black square seal in the bottom right corner.

Artwork details

Date:
1698
Medium:
Monochrome woodblock print with hand-coloring (tan-e ); ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
348 × 625 px
Museum record:
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