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workman: 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.

workman:

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.

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