Tokaido gojusan tsui

ca. 1845 (late Edo)

24.8 cm 36 cm

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According to legend, there was an old witch living along the Tokaido road who would assume the shape of a giant cat in order to waylay young women who were visiting a local shrine.

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C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.
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Utagawa School
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