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The Eighth Month

Ishikawa Toyomasa

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Eighth Month by Ishikawa Toyomasa. The image depicts a Japanese woodblock print with a beige background. The top left features a large white moon in a blue-grey sky with white clouds. The top right features a vertical white rectangle with Japanese characters. There are tall grasses on the left and right sides. Seven people wearing kimonos are on a green hill. Three women point upwards to the left; one woman wears a red kimono and two women wear dark kimonos. Four people crouch at the bottom; three on the left point upwards and one on the right looks to the right. The print features Japanese characters in the bottom-right corner. A grey color palette ruler is on the right side.

Artwork details

Date:
ca. 1767
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
544 × 625 px
Museum record:
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Palette