Shibata Zeshin

Lighting a Hanging Lantern for the Obon Festival

circa 1860

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions

9 1/8 x 6 3/8 in. (23.2 x 16.2 cm)

Collection no.

JP2743

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Shibata Zeshin. Lighting a Hanging Lantern for the Obon Festival. Shibata Zeshin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.