Rice-Pounding Rabbit, 1855. Creator: Tanaka Shutei.

Rice-Pounding Rabbit, 1855. Creator: Tanaka Shutei.

2-875-002 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Rice-Pounding Rabbit, 1855. Kaguya, a princess from the moon, watches a rabbit pounding a mochi rice cake in a Chinese urn. The rabbit heralds the New Year, and in this case the arrival of the year of the rabbit.


Image Details


People Information

Creator
  1. Tanaka Shutei, attributed to: Japanese: Artist, printmaker, printer, print designer

Medium
  1. Colour woodblock print
  2. Surimono

Picture Type
  1. Satire,arts of asia

Category Hierarchy

Science & Nature Animal Life

Lifestyle & Leisure Food & Drink

Artistic Representations Satires

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Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3000x2223
File Size : 19,539kb


Aliases

  1. 1972.1889
  1. 43384
  1. 1000028152
  1. 1972.1889
  1. 2-875-002
  1. 2875002

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