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Selected Scenes from One Poem Each by One Hundred Poets: Poem by Emperor Kōkō

Utagawa Kunisada

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A woman wearing a gray kimono featuring white floral patterns stands on a sandy beach. The kimono has a pink and green underlay visible at the hem and a red obi. She holds a parasol above her head with her right hand; the parasol is pink, white, and tan. Her long black hair blows to the right. Three pieces of paper with kanji and one scroll with kanji float around her. Snowflakes fall around her. The background shows a sandy beach at the bottom and a gray sky at the top.

Artwork Details

Date
19th century
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
430 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
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