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Seki Shūkō

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a traditional Asian-style painting depicting a landscape. The painting features a mountainous background with gray and brown hues. The mountains are depicted with varying shades of gray and brown, with some areas covered in mist or fog. The sky above the mountains is light beige. In the foreground, there are trees and a building with a tiled roof. A person wearing a blue robe and another wearing white are walking on a path leading to the building. The painting includes a gold border around the edges. There are also several lines of black and red Asian characters written vertically on the top right and a red signature on the bottom left.

Artwork Details

Date
1892
Medium
Album leaf; ink and color on silk
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
479 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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