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Goyu

Utagawa Hiroshige

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Japanese woodblock print, rectangular, aged paper border. Mountain landscape with blue sky and white snow-capped mountain in background. Two smaller mountains either side, dark brown left, lighter brown right. Blue lake or river in mid-ground, trees on banks. Willow trees in mid-ground and foreground. People wearing traditional Japanese clothing walking on riverbank and sitting on ground. Two red and one yellow rectangular text boxes top and left of image. Two small circular symbols bottom-left corner. Small writing bottom-right corner. People, trees, and buildings in background. Mountain, sky, and water depicted in shades of blue, white, grey, brown, and green. Yellow and orange used for building roofs. People wearing blue, yellow, orange, and red clothing.

Artwork Details

Date
1855
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
415 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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