Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 147454
The Seven Gods of Good Fortune Arm-wrestling
- Artist / 作者
- Oneisai
- Date / 年代
- 1750
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / jaodb
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 600 × 444 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Japanese Art Open Database
- Published by / 公開者
- 水野ナギ
- Rights / 権利
- No reusable image license documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Japanese Art Open Database
Catalog note / 解説
The Seven Gods of Good Fortune Arm-wrestling, by Oneisai (ca. 1750) You probably can't figure out what's going on here. The round white circle just below the center of the composition is where you would place a cylinder with an mirrored outer surface. You could then see what the image really looked like in the surface of the cylindrical mirror. This kind of picture was known as a saya-e or sword scabbard picture in Japan. This name derives from the fact that if you stand up the shiny lacquered scabbard of a sword, you can see strange forms reflected in its shiny surface.
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