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Poet with Two Pages on the Banks of the Tatsuta

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorful Japanese woodblock print. Woman and a man sitting on ground by river. Woman wears purple kimono with blue undergarment. Man wears green kimono, black hat, and holds a pipe. Orange kimono on ground between them. Swirling currents on river. Blue and green hills and trees in background. Bare tree branches. Pink, green, and white rectangle with black writing in top right. Vertical pink rectangle with black writing on right edge. Small pink and white square on bottom right.

Artwork details

Date:
ca. 1845
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
422 × 624 px
Museum record:
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