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The Torpedo Officer (Suirai shikan), frontispiece illustration from the literary magazine Bungei kurabu, vol. 1, no. 8

Kajita Hanko

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Japanese-style illustration of a scene in a hospital room. A woman in a white nurse uniform and cap stands on the left. A man in a military uniform with a hat and a red and white emblem on his chest stands center. He looks at a man lying in bed on the right, who wears a blue robe and faces away from the viewer. The man's head rests on a white pillow. A brown chair with a green seat sits beside the bed. A window with a green frame and white curtains is on the back wall. A rack with papers or charts is on the right wall. The room's walls are beige.

Artwork Details

Date
ca. 1900
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
600 × 475 px
Public Domain
Yes
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