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A Block for Pounding Cloth (Kinuta) and Poem by Ōtagaki Rengetsu — VisualArtsDB

A Block for Pounding Cloth (Kinuta) and Poem

A Block for Pounding Cloth (Kinuta) and Poem

Ōtagaki Rengetsu

1870

Medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions: 30.5 x 40.7 cm (12 x 16 in.)
Genre: Painting
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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