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Foreign Words (Ikoku kotoba)

Utagawa Yoshiiku · 1860

Palette

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Artist

Utagawa Yoshiiku
Japanese, 1833–1904

Date

1860

Type

Print

Medium

Color woodblock print; oban

Size

36.5 × 24 cm (14 3/8 × 9 1/2 in.)

Place

Japan

Period

19th century

Main colour

Grey · lightness 49, colourfulness 19

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1904: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1975. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules