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Three-stringed foal
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Three-stringed foal

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

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

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A disassembled shamisen (Japanese lute), against a stack, partly wrapped in cloth, songbooks. The parts of the instrument together with the books probably represent a horse, with the wooden bowl in the foreground representing the stirrup. With two poems.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineDrie snarige veulen. 1822. Katsushika Hokusai. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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