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Illustrated book

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a book with two pages. The pages are yellowed and aged. The pages are open, revealing both sides. There is a black border around the edges of both pages. Inside the border on each page is a black line drawing of a vase or urn. The vase or urn on the left page is on top of a line. The vase or urn on the right page appears on top of a line and has a smaller knob on the bottom centre. There are columns of foreign characters written in black ink on both pages. The characters are written vertically on both pages. The characters on the right page are arranged in a column on the right and a column on the left. The background behind the book is white.

Artwork Details

Date
1893
Medium
Ink on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
600 × 484 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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