

A piece of artwork on beige paper with a brown border depicting a branch with two blossoms. The branch is drawn in grey ink. The blossoms are circular with petals drawn inside resembling a star. The left blossom has a long curved branch leading down to another curved branch on the bottom right. The right blossom has a stem pointing down. There are seven lines of Japanese writing on the left and six on the right. The text is written vertically. There is a red seal on the bottom left. The title is "Plum Blossoms" and the artist is Yomo no Utagaki Magao.
Artwork Details
- Medium
- Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
- Culture
- Japan
- Dimensions
- 210 × 624 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
- View original
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