名所江戸百景 王子装束ゑの木大晦日の狐火, New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1857, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, Image: 12 13/16 × 8 5/8 in. (32.5 × 21.9 cm), Prints, Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797–1858 Tokyo (Edo)), Foxes gather at the large, old enoki (hackberry) tree on New Year's Eve to prepare to pay homage at the Ōji Inari shrine, the headquarters of the Inari cult in eastern Japan (Kantō). The cult centers on the god of the rice field, for whom the fox serves as messenger
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名所江戸百景 王子装束ゑの木大晦日の狐火, New Year, Eve Foxfires, Changing Tree, Ōji, Edo period, 1615–1868, ca, 1857, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print, ink, color, paper, Image, 12 13/16, 8 5/8, 32.5, 21.9 cm, Prints, Utagawa Hiroshige, Japanese, Tokyo, Edo, 1797–1858, Foxes gather, large, old enoki, hackberry, tree, Eve, prepare, pay homage, Ōji Inari, shrine, headquarters, Inari cult, eastern Japan, Kantō, cult centers, god, rice field, whom, fox serves, messenger
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