[Two long-necked creatures accosting a noodle shop customer] – Antique Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [Two long-necked creatures accosting a noodle shop customer], preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Two long-necked figures crowd a noodle shop customer here, their necks stretched into the stall's ordinary space, a comic twist on the shapeshifting yokai of Japanese folklore. The print comes from *Kyōsai hyakuzu*, a collection of sketches by the painter Kawanabe Kyōsai, who was known for lively, irreverent scenes of ghosts, monsters and everyday absurdity. The library dates it to about 1863, with a question mark, and it was published in Edo, now Tokyo. The humor depends on the uncanny breaking into a mundane setting, which shows in the bold color and quick outlines of the woodcut.
| Medium | 1 print (2 pages) : woodcut, color. |
|---|---|
| Genre | dreams and substances |
| Notes | [1863?] |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Kyōsai hyakuzu. Shiba Shinmei-mae [Edo] : Wakasaya Yoichi han, [18--?]. Title devised by Library staff. Published in: The floating world of Ukiyo-e : shadows, dreams, and substance / essays by Sandy Kita ... [et al.], New York : Abrams in association with the Library of Congress, 2001, p. 102. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,535 × 3,670 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222101 |
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