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The Tenjin sutra: Sugawara no Michizane Riding a Bull (Tenjinkyo)
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Date:
ca. 1845
Location:
Not on display
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Media:
Color Woodcut Vertical Diptych
Dimensions:
72.3 x 23.5 cm (image); 72.3 x 23.5 cm (sheet); 72.3 x 23.5 cm
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Asia
Accession Number:
54755.1043
Acquisition Date:
1935-12-13
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Carlotta Mabury
scholar seated cross-legged on a bull as he reads a book
Contemporaneous Works “Art from the same century and country”
Mannen Bridge in Fukagawa (Fukagawa Mannenbashi), no. 51 from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei) (Eleventh month of 1857 (series published 1856-1858))