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Picture Book on the Music of the Pine Trees (Ehon matsu no shirabe) 絵本松のしらべ

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two-page spread from a book, with a light brown background and black lines separating the pages and bordering the artwork. The left page shows a woman sitting on a veranda with a railing and a roof supported by a pillar; she wears a pink and orange kimono with a white undergarment, and holds a fan; she sits next to a low table. The veranda overlooks a body of water with a boat and mountains in the background. There are trees with pink leaves. The right page shows a woman in a pink and yellow kimono standing and holding a branch of a tree with pink leaves; she faces right; a man sits on the ground to the right of her, wearing a red kimono; to the right is a child or small person wearing a red kimono and sitting on the ground; there are characters written in black ink across the top of both pages.

Artwork Details

Date
1795 (Kansei 7)
Medium
Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
599 × 400 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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