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The Moving Brush in "Rough" Painting (Unpitsu soga) 運筆麁画

Tachibana Morikuni 橘守国

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows an open book with yellowed pages. The left page has a black and white drawing of a person on one knee with their head down. The person's body is depicted with bold black lines. There are flowers and a branch on the bottom right of the page. The right page has a faded gray image of a man with a beard. There is a branch with flowers on the bottom left of the page. There is Japanese writing on the right side of the right page. The book is open on a white surface.

Artwork details

Date:
1749
Medium:
Set of three woodblock printed books; ink on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
599 × 400 px
Museum record:
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