Korean Embassy Parade

A long horizontal procession scene spans two joined sheets, showing a line of costumed figures on foot interspersed with two riders on horseback, moving in profile against a plain buff background. Figures wear tall pointed hats, wide-brimmed hats, and patterned robes, some carrying long poles or staffs and one pair bearing a covered palanquin-like box on their shoulders; the palette is limited to soft black outlines with pale washes of pink, blue-grey, and tan. This hand-colored woodblock makimono-e print, titled *Korean Embassy Parade*, was made by Hishikawa Moronobu in 1677.