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A Kyōka (Light Verse) Chorus of Birds (Kyōka momochidori) 狂歌文茂智登理

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two-page spread from a book, pages yellowed with age. Two black-bordered rectangular illustrations side by side. Top of each illustration contains several columns of Japanese text. The left illustration features a man sitting cross-legged wearing a green robe with black hair and a bent posture, head bowed and face obscured from view. The right illustration features a man sitting cross-legged wearing a gray top with blue cuffs and a blue and black headpiece, with a highly stylized depiction of a large tuft of hair on top of his head, and a mustache. The man appears to be sitting in a more upright posture than the man on the left.

Artwork Details

Date
1857
Medium
Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
599 × 400 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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