The Buddhist guardian deity, Fudô Myôô, reading a government propaganda publication, enthusing about Western customs and modernisation: one attendant prepares meat, another warms sake in the sacred flame. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, 1874.
- Kawanabe, Kyōsai, 1831-1889.
- Date:
- 1874
- Reference:
- 37709i
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Fudô Myôô 'Unmoveable king of fire', reads Shimbun zasshi, a publication by the Ministry of Education, a propaganda organ that urged western ways on the people of Japan, including the eating of meat
Publication/Creation
Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], 1874.
Physical description
1 print : woodcut, printed in colours
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Seisei Kyōsai
Bears publisher's mark, block cutter's mark, censor's seal and set title
References note
Tim Clark, Demon of painting: the art of Kawanabe Kyōsai, London 1993, p. 126
Reference
Wellcome Collection 37709i
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