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🎨 Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿 (c. 1754–1806) | Woodblock print c. 1793–94
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🎨 Kōno Bairei (幸野 楳嶺, 1844 – 1895) | From Inakanotsuki, 1889
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Ikakusuru kuro neko | 🎨 Takahashi Shōtei 高橋松亭 (1871-1945)
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What a wonderful frog!
Matsumoto Hoji Frog, Japanese Woodblock, Toad Wabi Sabi
Matsumoto Hoji, Japanese, active c. 1785. This portly toad, bursting beyond the confines of the scroll's edges, belongs to a category of Japanese painting known as Zenga, or "Zen picture." For Zen monks, painting provided a medium to express their own Zen experience and pleasure.
Maruyama-Shijo School, Kishi School, Bunjinga School. Materials: paper. Edo Period, Bunka Era. Production date: 1814
