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Description
A girl and 7 women watch a performance of noh / no theater in which dancers dressed as 2 Chinese lions / Kara shishi frolic amidst peony flowers. Lion dances / shishi mai have a long history in China and Japan, often associated with protecting a community against diseases but also with bringing good luck. The lively dance movements, and the swinging of the long manes, make for a popular theatrical interlude, found in both noh and kabuki. Often the lions are bothered by butterflies, leading to a comic dance / kappore, although that is not shown here. Twelve of the Scripps College triptychs in this set were mounted as a handscroll, so the usual information about publisher and dates was trimmed off. However, this print has the seal of Hasegawa Tsunejiro's shop Kiyomizu-ya located in Kanda, and pertinent information about the series has been acquired from untrimmed prints in other collections.
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