The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Asao Jujiro as a Cake Seller and Ikushima Shingoro as Bushi (Samurai) Seated on the Peddler's Lacquer Box Containing His Wares

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Ink Painting and the Rinpa Tradition

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Part of a Sunday at the Met held in conjunction with the exhibition Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art, on view May 26, 2012–January 13, 2013, this lecture features Yukio Lippit, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

Recorded September 30, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation.
The catalogue is made possible by the Richard and Geneva Hofheimer Memorial Fund.

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Asao Jujiro as a Cake Seller and Ikushima Shingoro as Bushi (Samurai) Seated on the Peddler's Lacquer Box Containing His Wares

Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)

Period:: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date:: probably 1709
Culture:: Japan
Medium:: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions:: 10 3/8 x 14 3/4 in. (26.4 x 37.5 cm)
Classification:: Prints
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number:: JP545

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