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English Couple (Igirisujin)

Utagawa Yoshitora

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a colorful illustration of a man and a woman. The man on the left wears a brown hat, a black jacket with gold buttons and epaulets, and light-colored pants. He looks at the woman. The woman on the right has long, wavy blonde hair. She wears a blue jacket with gold buttons and a pink skirt. She holds a blue umbrella in her left hand and a sign with Japanese writing on it in her right hand. The sign has three colored sections: red on top, white in the middle, and green on the bottom. The background is beige with a blue stripe at the top. There are several lines of Japanese writing on the left and bottom of the image.

Artwork Details

Date
12th month, 1860
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
426 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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