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Kan'yōsai Picture Album (Kan'yōsai gafu) 寒葉斎画譜

Kan'yōsai 寒葉斎 (Tatebe Ayatari 建部綾足)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows an open book with two pages featuring a black and white illustration of a bird. The book's pages are yellowed, with a black line bordering the illustrations. The bird has a long neck, an open beak, and dark feathers with light spots. It appears to be sitting in water with ripples around it, and the background shows wavy lines suggesting more water and a distant shoreline. The right page has vertical Japanese characters in the top-right corner. The background behind the book is plain and light-colored.

Artwork details

Date:
1762, eleventh month (Hōreki 12)
Medium:
Set of five woodblock printed books; ink on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
599 × 400 px
Museum record:
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