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Mice on Rice-cake Flowers

Nagasawa Rosetsu 長沢芦雪

Long, narrow format horizontal color painting of five mice, four brown and one white, eating a white substance growing in round balls on a thin branch that extends horizontally from left to right across the center of the image, on a blank background. Several red blossoming buds on the branch at the lower left. Four of the mice are on the left side of the image, with the smallest brown mouse eating from an extremity of a branch on the far right. A thin, rectangular border of textile in two layers surrounds the image on all sides. — Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 12 5/8 × 37 5/8 in (image). Public Domain

Artist
Nagasawa Rosetsu

Subject Area
Creatures of the Land

Artistic Techniques
Shasei

More about this art at
Minneapolis Institute of Art ↗

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