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詩歌写真鏡 李白|Ri Haku from the series Mirrors of Japanese and Chinese Poems (Shiika shashin kyō)

詩歌写真鏡 李白|Ri Haku from the series Mirrors of Japanese and Chinese Poems (Shiika shashin kyō) by Katsushika Hokusai

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

20 3/8 x 9 in. (51.8 x 22.9 cm)

Classification

Prints

Culture & Period

Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975

Accession Number

JP3516

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About the Artist

Katsushika Hokusai · 17601849

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) stands as one of history's most influential artists, a Japanese master who revolutionized the ukiyo-e woodblock print tradition and profoundly shaped Western art. Born in the Katsushika district of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to an artisan family, Hokusai lived through nearly nine decades of extraordinary creative evolution, adopting over thirty different artistic names t...

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