Hokusai tea-kettle raccoon - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Hokusai tea-kettle raccoon - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Title: "Gyakuhitsu Bunbuku chagama zu (The Tea-Kettle Raccoon: Painting Executed Upside Down).
Hanging scroll, 25.6 x 30.9 cm. William Sturgis Bigelow Collection.[1] Actually a raccoon-dog or tanuki transformed into a monk, alluding to the Japanese legend of Bunbuku Chagama at Morin-ji temple, etc.
日本語: 題名: 「逆筆分福茶釜図」。掛軸。25.6 x 30.9 cm. ボストン美術館ビゲローコレクション所蔵[2]。弘化五/嘉永元年(1848年)頃[3]。狸が化けた僧が持つ茂林寺等の分福茶釜伝説への言及。

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