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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tanaka Hokusai, Piece. A beige-brown background with a slightly darker brown border. The artwork features multiple columns of Japanese writing, with four partial illustrations of a face in the corners and center. The four corner illustrations are grayscale and appear to be rocks. The center illustrations are of faces and colored with red, black, and beige. The background artwork is crumpled with lines across it. The object has two pieces of tape at the top right. The bottom right has small brown numbers.

Artwork Details

Date
18th–19th century
Medium
Silk
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
599 × 581 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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