Shotei produced a wide range of subjects throughout his career under publishers Watanabe and Daikokuya. Signed, sealed lifetime editions consistently outperform unsigned export-market copies.
Two rats investigate a radish — the animals' long, sensitive noses and whiskers detailed with naturalistic precision, their postures alert and curious. This 1926 print belongs to Shotei's mouse-and-vegetable series, closely related to the Mice, Radish, and Carrot composition, demonstrating his sustained interest in these intimate still-life-with-animal subjects. The radish's size relative to the rats gives the composition a gentle humor, the enormous vegetable diminishing and overawing its small investigators.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Rats and Radishes was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭) in 1926.
Rats and Radishes was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1926).
Rats and Radishes depicts still life, food & drink, and animals.
Rats and Radishes measures 24.1 × 36.5 cm (Oban format).
