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Kinpaen (Bunpō) Picture Album (Kinpaen gafu) 金波園画譜

Kawamura Bunpō 河村文鳳

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two-page spread from an old book with yellowed pages. The left page depicts a landscape with a hill in the background and a plant in the foreground on the bottom-left. The right page shows two badgers or tanuki and a mushroom. The badgers are drawn with dark brown fur. The badger on the right holds a large mushroom with a round cap. Black and brown lines represent grass and plants on both pages. The pages have a thin black border. Japanese characters are printed vertically along the right edge of the left page and the left edge of the right page. The background behind the book is white.

Artwork details

Date:
1820, Midsummer (Bunsei 3)
Medium:
Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
600 × 488 px
Museum record:
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