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Letter to Yamagishi Hanzan by Matsuo Bashō — VisualArtsDB

Letter to Yamagishi Hanzan

Letter to Yamagishi Hanzan

1685

Medium: Letter mounted as a hanging scroll: ink on paper
Dimensions: Image: 5 3/4 × 43 1/2 in. (14.6 × 110.5 cm) Overall with mounting: 42 1/2 × 44 3/4 in. (108 × 113.7 cm) Overall with knobs: 42 1/2 × 46 7/8 in. (108 × 119.1 cm)
Genre: Calligraphy
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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