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Man and Woman in Ceremonial Dress Arranging the New Year Decoration of a Pine Tree

Kubo Shunman

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A woman and a man in traditional Japanese clothing. The woman on the left has long black hair and wears a kimono with a white base and orange and blue designs. The man sits on the floor to the right, wearing a blue and white plaid kimono and a traditional Japanese hat. He holds a pine tree branch. The woman looks down at the man. In the upper right, a circular inset shows a man in a red kimono holding a sword-like object over a low table with a roof. The background has a gradient from red at the top to beige at the bottom. There is a beige border with a patterned brown frame. The frame includes Japanese text on the left, right and top. The bottom right has a pine tree.

Artwork details

Date:
19th century
Medium:
Part of an album of woodblock prints (surimono); ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
420 × 624 px
Museum record:
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