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Source Description
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.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
34610
label
Tokaido gojusan tsui
core
obj
dtoType
print
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
34610
sourceUrl
contentType
print
stage
normalized
title
Tokaido gojusan tsui
description
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.
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
ca. 1845 (late Edo)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Prints
woodblock prints
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
36
height
24.8
dimensionsRaw
14 3/16 x 9 3/4 in. (36.04 x 24.77 cm)
style
Utagawa School
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
[Signature] Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga
med
mulberry paper, pigments
creator_ids
14920
5546
collection_ids
JPK
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
c5440b175e83f258