Woodblock print of a snake, offering bowl and memorial tablet – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Woodblock print of a snake, offering bowl and memorial tablet comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Woodblock print of a snake, offering bowl and memorial tablet
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A coiled snake shares the frame with an offering bowl and a memorial tablet, a pairing that points to the Buddhist practice of honoring the dead at a household altar. Woodblock prints like this one were made by carving designs into blocks, inking them, and pressing paper against them, which allowed a single image to reach many buyers. In Japanese folklore snakes could signify protection, but they were also linked to danger and lingering attachment, so the scene invites a slower look at what it suggests about loss and remembrance.
| Original scan | 3,821 × 4,715 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g08746_ |
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