Young Woman Looks at Silhouette of a Male Prisoner being Led Away

Young Woman Looks at Silhouette of a Male Prisoner being Led Away

Tomioka Eisen

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Eisen's print displays the rather melodramatic sentiment as an illustration for a novel is typical of late Meiji print. A woman watches the silhouettes of her lover being led away by the police man. The silhouettes without background motifs suggest a unreachable place from the woman in the reality.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Young Woman Looks at Silhouette of a Male Prisoner being Led AwayYoung Woman Looks at Silhouette of a Male Prisoner being Led AwayYoung Woman Looks at Silhouette of a Male Prisoner being Led AwayYoung Woman Looks at Silhouette of a Male Prisoner being Led AwayYoung Woman Looks at Silhouette of a Male Prisoner being Led Away

The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.