DETAILS
- Artist
- Nishimura Shigenaga
- Date
- 1724
- Medium
- hand-colored woodblock print
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- Japanese Art
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Credit line
- The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
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