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Racoon dog in the guise of monk wearing ''kesa'', sitting next to a tea kettle on a sunken hearth (''irori'')

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Artist
Katsushika Hokusai  (1760–1849)  wikidata:Q5586 q:en:Hokusai
 
Katsushika Hokusai
Alternative names
Birth name: Tokitarō (時太郎)
Description Japanese painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 31 October 1760 Edit this at Wikidata 10 May 1849 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Edo, today Tokyo Edo, today Tokyo
Work period 1808 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Edo, today Tokyo, Nagoya,Uraga
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artist QS:P170,Q5586
Description
English: Title: "Gyakuhitsu Bunbuku chagama zu (The Tea-Kettle Raccoon: Painting Executed Upside Down). Hanging scroll, 25.6 x 30.9 cm. William Sturgis Bigelow Collection.[1] Actually a raccoon-dog or tanuki transformed into a monk, alluding to the Japanese legend of Bunbuku Chagama at Morin-ji temple, etc.
日本語: 題名: 「逆筆分福茶釜図」。掛軸。25.6 x 30.9 cm. ボストン美術館ビゲローコレクション所蔵[2]。弘化五/嘉永元年(1848年)頃[3]。狸が化けた僧が持つ茂林寺等の分福茶釜伝説への言及。
Date circa 1848
date QS:P571,+1848-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source/Photographer Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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11:39, 9 September 2011Thumbnail for version as of 11:39, 9 September 2011941 × 786 (230 KB)Racconish (talk | contribs){{Information |Description ={{en|1=The Tea-Kettle Raccoon: Painting Executed Upside Down Hanging scroll, 25.6 x 30.9 cm (10 1/16 x 12 3/16 in.) Type: Hanging scroll Museum of Fine Arts, Boston William Sturgis Bigelow Collection Accession number: 11.74

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