Title: Unexpected Meeting on the Yodo River
Object type: Hanging scroll
Date: 1823
Culture: Japan
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Artist:  Rai San’yō 頼山陽 
Artist bio: Japanese, 1780–1832
Artist nationality: Japanese
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions: Image: 50 1/8 × 10 11/16 in. (127.3 × 27.2 cm)
Overall with mounting: 68 × 15 3/4 in. (172.7 × 40 cm)
Overall with knobs: 68 × 17 3/4 in. (172.7 × 45.1 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2021
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY