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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Ōta Dōkan Decides to Study Poetry1887

Not on view
Japanese woodblock diptych print; left sheet shows two figures in the rain, one tall in a straw hat and green robe, one small behind; right sheet shows a woman in layered kimono bowing to the ground beneath a flowering vine

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Ōta Dōkan Decides to Study Poetry, 1887, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Herbert R. Cole Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title
Ōta Dōkan Decides to Study Poetry
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1887
Period
Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Diptych; color woodblock print
Dimensions
Image (a): 12 15/16 × 8 15/16 in. (32.86 × 22.7 cm) Sheet (a): 13 11/16 × 9 3/16 in. (34.77 × 23.34 cm) Image (b): 13 1/16 × 9 in. (33.18 × 22.86 cm) Sheet (b): 13 3/4 × 9 3/16 in. (34.93 × 23.34 cm)
Credit Line
Herbert R. Cole Collection
Accession Number
M.84.31.274a-b
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art