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Maker(s):Ando HIroshige
Culture:Japanese (1797-1858)
Title:New Year's Eve Foxfires at Nettle Tree, Oji, No. 118, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Date Made:late 1830's
Type:Print
Materials:woodcut printed in color on paper
Place Made:Japan
Measurements:sheet: 9 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.; 24.13 x 33.655 cm
Accession Number:  SC 1968.383
Credit Line:The Margaret Rankin Barker - Isaac Ogden Rankin Collection. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Barker (Margaret Clark Rankin, class of 1908)
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
View 118; Night scene, a group of foxes blowing flames gather around a large hackberry tree (enoki) and haystacks, in the fields to the distant right a second group of fire breathing foxes approach; This scene relates to the legend that on New Years Eve all the foxes in the provinces would gather near Oji Inari Shrine to receive orders for the coming year. On the way to the shrine the foxes blew flames, which farmers used to predicted the crops for the year.

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