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A color woodblock print of a white cat with it’s back to us, stares out a window, looking over rooftops, green fields, toward Mt Fuji in the distance. A blue and white bowl and towel sit on the windowsill , on the floor are decorative hair pins.

Asakusa Rice Fields and Torinomachi Festival (Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi mode), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

1857

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858

Japan

Color woodblock print; oban

Arts of Asia