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Source Description
A foreign woman visits the Fox Shrine in Oji at the hour of the ox (1-3 AM) in order to put a curse on a former lover. What's funny is the sight of a foreigner doing something in a traditional Japanese manner. Yoshitoshi carries it even further by having a fox interrupt the woman's ritual.
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Document identity
localId
28169
label
Tokyo kaika kyoga meisho
core
obj
dtoType
print
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
28169
sourceUrl
contentType
print
stage
normalized
title
Tokyo kaika kyoga meisho
description
A foreign woman visits the Fox Shrine in Oji at the hour of the ox (1-3 AM) in order to put a curse on a former lover. What's funny is the sight of a foreigner doing something in a traditional Japanese manner. Yoshitoshi carries it even further by having a fox interrupt the woman's ritual.
provenance
C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.
date
1881 (Meiji)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Prints
woodblock prints
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
17.8
height
24.1
dimensionsRaw
7 x 9 1/2 in. (17.78 x 24.13 cm)
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
[Signature] Yoshitoshi giga (drew for fun); [Transcription] Oji inari onna ijin no toki mairi; [Translation] ""visit to the fox shrine in Oji at the hour of the foreign woman"" (?)
med
mulberry paper, pigments
creator_ids
15058
4514
collection_ids
JPK
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
6545bf970d2e2a18