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Plum Blossoms

Yomo no Utagaki Magao

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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
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