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Horse money
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Horse money

Katsushika Hokusai · 1822 · color woodcut; blind-stamped; polish; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Red-and-white porcelain pot on a lacquer dish, next to it a bunch of keys. The beans in the foreground refer to the Setsubun festival, on which beans are thrown to ward off evil. This print is a calendar print for the year of the horse in 1822; where the black beans indicate the long months and the white beans the short months of that year. Komahikizeni are coins with an image of a horse on them. With five poems.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit linePaarden-geld. 1822. Katsushika Hokusai. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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