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Young Lovers under a Drooping Willow, Their Hands Clasped, Their Heads Bent

Torii Kiyohiro

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A vertical, rectangular piece of artwork featuring two people and a tree. The people are standing side by side. The person on the left is a man with black hair in a traditional Japanese top knot style. He is wearing a kimono with a dark green and salmon-colored background with designs including a chrysanthemum, waves, and a ginkaku. He is looking down, his right hand on the hilt of a sword. He is wearing geta. The person on the right is a woman with black hair styled with a combs and pins. She wears a kimono with a similar design. She looks down as well. They are both bending forward to one side. Behind them a tree with drooping branches fills the top left corner. The background is light brown. The woman's kimono has a seal. There is Japanese writing vertically on the left side.

Artwork details

Date:
1754
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
286 × 625 px
Museum record:
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