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Chinese Sage Reading While Riding on a Buffalo

Totoya Hokkei

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A man with a blue head covering sits on top of a dark gray buffalo. The man wears a gray robe over a yellow garment and a light blue inner garment; the robe has a patterned sash. He holds a book in his left hand and a long stick with a hook on the end in his right. The buffalo has a white flower arrangement on its lower back leg. The background is beige with black Japanese writing on both sides and a red square stamp in the bottom right corner.

Artwork Details

Date
ca. 1820
Medium
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
544 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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