Foxes' Wedding Procession, 19th century
Nakabayashi Chikkeiexpand_more
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paperexpand_more
The Michael and Grace Bress Endowment for Art Acquisitionexpand_more 2014.67
Not on Viewexpand_more
According to Japanese folk belief, foxes are messengers of the gods and protectors of shrines dedicated to Inari, the god of grain. Foxes’ supernatural power, it was believed, enables them to emit a small flame-like light. Atmospheric conditions that produce mysterious light in the distance at night came to be explained as the wedding processions of foxes. And because of foxes’ association with Inari, enactments of fox weddings were sometimes held in pre-modern Japan to ensure a bountiful harvest. Paintings of fox wedding processions, like this one, were accordingly auspicious.
Details
- Title
- Foxes' Wedding Procession
- Artist Life
- 1816 - 1867
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2014.67
- Provenance
- (Ishinosuke Mizutani); (Toyobi Far Eastern Art, c. 1985).
- Curator Approved
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