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centuriespast:

Tanuki Hunting with Nets (Tanuki no amiuchi) (T) and Tanuki Travelling (Tanuki no ôrai) (B), from an untitled series of Tanuki (Raccoon-dogs)

• 狸の戯画　「狸のあみ打ち」　「狸のおふらい（＝往来）」

• Japanese, Edo period, about 1843–44 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 1)
• Artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese, 1797–1861
• Publisher Kazusaya Iwazô (Iwakichi), Japanese
• Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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