五美人図, Five Beauties, Edo period (1615–1868), 1840, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Image: 15 3/8 × 20 3/4 in. (39.1 × 52.7 cm), Paintings, Teisai Hokuba (Japanese, 1771–1844), The two women on the left play a hand-gesture game called kitsune-ken (fox fists) in which gestures representing a supernatural fox (kitsune) defeat those of a village head (shōya), who defeats a hunter (ryōshi), who in turn defeats the fox
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五美人図, Five Beauties, Edo period, 1615–1868, 1840, Japan, Hanging scroll, ink, color, silk, Image, 15 3/8, 20 3/4, 39.1, 52.7 cm, Paintings, Teisai Hokuba, Japanese, 1771–1844, two, women, left play, hand-gesture game, kitsune-ken, fox fists, gestures representing, supernatural fox, kitsune, defeat, village head, shōya, defeats, hunter, ryōshi, turn defeats, fox
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