Cat and Cat Statue

Cat and Cat Statue is a sōsaku-hanga woodblock print in the F12 format, catalogued by [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e).org under Kasamatsu Mihoko's name. The composition juxtaposes a living cat with a ceramic or stone cat figure — a pairing of animate and inanimate that gives the image a gentle humor uncommon in [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) and more characteristic of the postwar creative-print sensibility, where artists allowed themselves narrative and even whimsical subjects.