[Two long-necked creatures accosting a noodle shop customer] – Vintage Wall Art
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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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [Two long-necked creatures accosting a noodle shop customer]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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In this woodcut, two long-necked creatures turn on a customer at a noodle stall, a scene that is part nightmare and part joke. It comes from *Kyōsai hyakuzu*, a sketchbook by the painter Kawanabe Kyōsai, whose fondness for the bizarre, the satirical, and the supernatural made him one of the most inventive artists of late Edo. Such books were printed in quantity for a broad urban readership, so the image reflects street life in the capital as much as the artist's imagination. The record dates it to around 1863, and the title is a cataloger's description rather than an original caption.
| Medium | 1 print : 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 | 3,689 × 4,593 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222061 |
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