Artist: Utagawa Kunisada
Title: Tattoo and Kitchen Knife - Mitate Tsuki Zukushi
Date: 1856.
Details & Prices: Utagawa Kunisada: Tattoo and Kitchen Knife - Mitate Tsuki Zukushi - Artelino
Source:
artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description:
"Mitate Tsuki Zukushi; Misashi no Tsuki" (Collection of the Full Moon Parodied; The Moon over Musashi). Ichikawa Danjuro VIII is in the role of Omatsuri Sashichi. His dragon coiled around a sword tattoo (this design is called "kurikaraken") represents God Fudo Myo-o. The design might have been connected to the legend of storm god Susa-no-o, also.
