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Poetic Travel, 1st month, 1883. Color woodblock print; surimono.
Color woodblock print; surimono · 58 × 43.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Poetic Travel
- Artist
- Shibata Zeshin Japanese, 1807-1891
- Date
- 1st month, 1883
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; surimono
- Dimensions
- 58 × 43.7 cm (22 7/8 × 17 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Charles H. Mitchell Collection unrestricted gift
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1807–1891
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.







