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Fugu and Inada Fish, from the series Uozukushi (Every Variety of Fish)

Utagawa Hiroshige

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A blue and white fish with its mouth slightly open and a smaller gray and white fish with black spots on its head, swimming in water depicted in blue at the bottom. The large fish is on the left side and oriented to the left with its tail on the right, while the small fish is below and to the right of the large fish, also facing left. There are several branches with red flowers behind and to the right of the fish. The background is beige with several vertical columns of Japanese characters on either side. The image has a rectangular shape with a slightly darker border around the edges.

Artwork details

Date:
1840s
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
599 × 417 px
Museum record:
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