Celebrating Setsubun, The Day Before Spring
£180.00
Item code. 2501MS21
Artist: Toyohara Chikanobu (1838-1912)
Series: The Inner Halls of Chiyoda Palace
Date: 1896 , Meiji Period
Size: each panel approx. 23.7 x 35.8 cm
Condition: Very good impression and condition. Strong colours, minor loss as bottom corners.
Subject: Beauty
Setsubun celebrations at the female quarters of the imperial palace. An attendant is handling Fukumame or "fortune beans", which will be tossed to ward off evil, a tradition that exists in Japanese spring celebrations to this day.