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From "Collection of the Five Elements Compared: Wood"
Utagawa Kunisada
1852
EHON An album of color woodblock prints issued in 1852. This remarkable album is made up of a series of prints in triptych format so that the viewer may turn pages in sequence in the three sections and enjoy a superb variety of subjects. In this highly amusing river scene full of activity and color, traditional divers surface with small curiosities for the pleasure of an elegantly dressed small group of people anxiously awaiting the results of the underwater searches by the scantily clad expert swimmers.
woodblock printing
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