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Shishi-mai (lion dance)

Size: 25.0cm by 20.0cm (9.84 in by 7.87 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [M] ?

Designer: Kato Shinmei

Era: Post-war | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 8,000$ 61.00£ 48.00€ 57.75 [Item has been sold]

Description: The artist Shinmei Kato (1910-1998), was a prominent Japanese painter. His works often feature motifs of Japanese women and maiko. This piece is a woodblock print depicting the powerful head of a shishimai, lion dance, one of the traditional Japanese performing arts, in which performers mimic a lion's movements in a lion costume to festival music.

Published by Takamizawa company.

There are slight foxing spots on this print.

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