The Dancing Fox
1761–1771
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; chuban
- Dimensions
- 25.2 × 18.8 cm (9 15/16 × 7 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- Woodblock print
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printasian artJapanese (culture or style)woodblock print
About
A fox dressed as a Shintô priest beats a drum and dances by a shrine, probably Inari Taisha, which was dedicated to the fox god. Part of the name of the drum (taiko) sounds like the Japanese word for big or long (dai), and this reveals that the numerals appearing in relief on the fox’s clothing are the long months of the year 1766.