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Manzai Dancers

Teisai Hokuba

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts two men in traditional Japanese clothing. The man on the left wears a beige kimono with diagonal stripes on the right sleeve and an orange sash around his waist. He also wears a black hat. The man on the right crouches down and wears a green kimono with a white and pink patterned top underneath. The man on the right holds the man on the left's right hand. The background features several lines of Japanese text written in black ink. The background color is off-white.

Artwork Details

Medium
Part of an album of woodblock prints (surimono); ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
410 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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