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Santoan's Chats: Short Records Written upon His Waking (Suiyo shōroku: Santōan issekiwa) 睡余小録 山東庵一夕話

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two pages from a book. The pages are off-white with darker edges. The left page has dense columns of Japanese writing in black ink. The right page has a large black handprint with five fingers and a rectangular block of Japanese writing below it, near the bottom-right corner. The background behind the pages is white. The pages have a black border around them.

Artwork Details

Date
1844
Medium
Two volumes; ink on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
599 × 468 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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