Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 16, The Wonderful Tea-Kettle – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic print captures Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 16, The Wonderful Tea-Kettle in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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.
Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 16, The Wonderful Tea-Kettle
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Number 16 in the series retells *The Wonderful Tea-Kettle*, a folktale in which a poor monk or farmer buys an old iron kettle that turns out to be a shape-shifting tanuki, a raccoon dog from Japanese folklore. The story turns on the kettle sprouting legs and a tail, and it is one of the best-known Bunbuku Chagama tales. The series was made during the Meiji period, when Japanese publishers produced colorful prints for both domestic and export markets, and these tales were often packaged to introduce Western readers to traditional Japanese storytelling. The bright palette and dramatic composition show how illustrators of the time blended older woodblock conventions with newer printing methods.
| Original scan | 3,685 × 4,569 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g08647_ |
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