Chikanobu Yoshu,
Japanese,
(1838–1912)
Good Luck Mice, 1890
Ink on Paper
13 1/8 in. x 9 1/8 in. (33.34 cm x 23.18 cm)
Good Luck Mice, 1890
Ink on Paper
13 1/8 in. x 9 1/8 in. (33.34 cm x 23.18 cm)
Object Type:
Print
Technique:
Wood-block Printing
Period:
Meiji (Japan, 1869-1912)
Credit Line:
Purchased with funds from the Aoki Endowment for Japanese Arts and Cultures
Accession Number:
2005.1.38
Alternate Title:
Azuma fuzoku fukutsuku shi: Fuku Nezumi
Marks
Signed Yoshu Chikanobu.
Medium
Colored ink woodblock print; oban tate-e.
Object Description
Meiji period color woodblock print depicting two women and a girl looking at 6 white mice on the tatami mats inside their house. Outside are 3 bundles (covered with straw and ropes) adjacent to the open door to a kura (storehouse). "Fuku Nezumi" (Good Luck Mice) indicate the family's wealth. The seated woman holds a tobacco pipe.
Provenance
Purchased by Prof. Bruce Coats in Japan from Yamada Shoten.
Publisher
Takekawa Unokichi
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