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Chikanobu - Parody of the 12 Zodiac Animals

Chikanobu - Parody of the 12 Zodiac Animals

Toyohara Chikanobu 

The "Boar", Shitaya Marishiten. From the serie  "The Parody of the 12 Zodiac Animals"; Mitate junishi: Inoshishi. The goddess was popular with both samurai and merchants as a protector. Here one woman offers prayers while another holds incense sticks. In the inset a boy in a black school uniform at left and a man in a top hat at right give a modern sense to this street scene with traditional vendors and entertainers in the Shitaya area downhill from Ueno.

Publisher: Morimoto Junzaburo

Date: 1893 

Size: 37.4 x 25.1cm 

Condition: Good color and impression, backed on Meiji-era paper.

Genre: Ukiyo-e

Medium: Woodblock Print

$150.00 USD
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