Toyohara Kunichika: Lighting the Altar at 5 p.m. - Scenes of the Twenty-four Hours - Artelino

Artist: Toyohara Kunichika

Title: Lighting the Altar at 5 p.m. - Scenes of the Twenty-four Hours

Date: 1890.

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"Mitate Chuya Niju-Yo Ji no Uchi" (Allusion to the Twenty-four Hours of the Day) This series is regarded as Kunichika's finest, completed bijin series. The prints are a fascinating collection of beauties in different aspects of lives and full of intriguing word-puns and allusions. Lighting the Shinto household altar at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

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