PrintsJapanese

Five Deities (including three of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune: Benzaiten, Daikoku and Ebisu)

Artists

Miyamoto Izumo Sugawara Shin'eiArtist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Hand-colored woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Meiji era, 1868-1912

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

57.1 x 27 cm (22 1/2 x 10 5/8 in.)

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