Jar, scales and bowl, no. 6 from the series "The Rabbit's Boastful Exploits (Usagi tegarabanashi)"
- Date:
- 1819
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
Number six in the 1819 series The Rabbit's Boastful Exploits (Usagi tegarabanashi), this still-life surimono arranges a jar, a small set of scales, and a bowl into a tightly orchestrated composition. The series was commissioned for the year of the rabbit, 1819, and used the conceit of a rabbit's tall tales as the structural premise for a sequence of mitate-e still lifes, each linking everyday objects to fictional rabbit exploits through kyoka verse. Shinsai's design exemplifies the still-life mode at its most concentrated, with deluxe production—metallic accents, embossing, fine color modulation—that the Art Institute of Chicago's impression preserves at high quality. The Rabbit's Boastful Exploits series is among the most important coherent surimono projects of Shinsai's career.
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