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Jewel River at Ide (Ide no Tamagawa)

Suzuki Harunobu

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Three women wearing kimonos walking through shallow water. The woman on the left wears a black and yellow kimono with a white design. The woman in the middle wears a light-brown kimono with a white design and black woodblock printed geta. The woman on the right wears a light-orange kimono and walks barefoot. All three women have their hair done up in a loop on top of their heads. They walk to the left. The background shows a beige sky and a beige hill with yellow flowers. Black Japanese characters are in a rectangle in the top right.

Artwork details

Date:
ca. 1768
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
453 × 624 px
Museum record:
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