Catalog record · 目録番号 147886
Biwa and Snake
Catalog note / 解説
From a series of woodblock prints published by Matsushima Magokichi, based upon an album of paintings by Katsushika Hokusai and his students, a fabric-covered biwa musical instrument with a white snake. (The biwa is the chosen instrument of Benten, the White Snake Goddess of Japan's Shinto religion.)
Image record / 画像情報
ROBYNBUNTIN · Meiji (1891) · robynbuntin
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