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Boy Trying to Make an Ox Drink

Sakai Hōitsu

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A vertical rectangle painting on beige paper with a brown border decorated with a floral pattern. A large oval shape is centered in the painting. Inside the oval, a young boy wearing a red headband is trying to make a gray ox drink from a bowl held to its mouth. The ox is facing right. There are two bare tree branches behind the ox and boy. The background outside the oval is plain beige. There are some vertical black and red Japanese characters near the bottom of the painting.

Artwork details

Medium:
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
291 × 624 px
Museum record:
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