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Preparing Seven Herbs on the Seventh Day of the New Year, 1798. Color woodblock print; surimono.
Color woodblock print; surimono · 13.5 × 18.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Preparing Seven Herbs on the Seventh Day of the New Year
- Artist
- Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)
- Date
- 1798
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; surimono
- Dimensions
- 13.5 × 18.2 cm (5 3/8 × 7 3/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.