![Katsushika Hokusai. One Hundred Tales (Hyaku monogatari). [snake]Edo: Tsuruya Kiemon, 1830. From an album containing five color woodblock prints, 12 in. x 10 in. each. Asian Division (48) (LC-USZC4-8746)
“Obsession” (Shûnen)
In Hokusai’s time, a person’s obsessive feelings of jealousy were believed to continue beyond the grave. The vengeful spirit was thought to return to this world in the form of a snake or serpent. Hokusai’s print on the notion of “obsession” depicts a snake wrapped around a memorial tablet (ihai), customarily placed in the Buddhist altar for worship at home.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lullg7TsXF1r3zm68o1_500.jpg)
Katsushika Hokusai.
One Hundred Tales
(Hyaku monogatari). [snake]
Edo: Tsuruya Kiemon, 1830.
From an album containing
five color woodblock prints,
12 in. x 10 in. each.
Asian Division (48)
(LC-USZC4-8746)
One Hundred Tales
(Hyaku monogatari). [snake]
Edo: Tsuruya Kiemon, 1830.
From an album containing
five color woodblock prints,
12 in. x 10 in. each.
Asian Division (48)
(LC-USZC4-8746)
“Obsession”
(Shûnen)
In Hokusai’s time, a person’s obsessive feelings of jealousy were believed to continue beyond the grave. The vengeful spirit was thought to return to this world in the form of a snake or serpent. Hokusai’s print on the notion of “obsession” depicts a snake wrapped around a memorial tablet (ihai), customarily placed in the Buddhist altar for worship at home.
