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Views of Foreigners (Gaikokujin no zu)

Utagawa Yoshitomi

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The print depicts a man and a woman riding a horse side by side. The man wears a green military-style jacket with gold buttons and a tall black hat with a feather. The woman wears a pink jacket and a blue skirt with a floral pattern at the hem. She also wears a pink and blue headscarf. The horse is light brown with a darker brown mane and tail. The background of the print is beige. There are several lines of Japanese text on the print, including a vertical black rectangle with white text on the right side. Two smaller red rectangles with Japanese text are above the figures. The print appears to be on a white background, with a grey and black scale to the right.

Artwork Details

Date
1861
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
491 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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