#Yabu Chosui

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For #InternationalRabbitDay 🐰:

Yabu Chosui (Japan, 1814-c.1870) Portrait of a #Rabbit, 1867

Color woodblock print; surimono

24.9 × 18.3 cm (9 13/16 × 7 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

“A large rabbit fills the entire surface of this print, indicating that it was created in the year of the rabbit. The curious, sacklike quality of the rabbit’s body is also a reference to the large white bag of Hotei, one of the gods of good fortune, who often appears on New Year visual art. The rabbit’s body is also rounded out to suggest a lopsided moon (the home of the rice-pounding rabbit), which is emphasized by its silvery outline. Finally, there is an allusion to the most common New Year symbol, the rising sun. Although the rising sun is usually represented as a luminous, round body against an orange sky, Yabu Chosui showed it as a rising lopsided rabbit against a flaming pink background.”

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Yabu Chosui, 1887

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Portrait of a Rabbit, Yabu Chosui, 1867

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Portrait of a Rabbit (Surimono), Yabu Chosui, Woodblock print, 1867, Japan.

Happy New Year! 明けましておめでとうございます！

Hi💗

I just wanted to come in here and thank you all for making 2022 such a wonderful year for me. I started this blog in the spring and it has been a vehicle for me to expand my knowledge in vedic + sidereal astrology. This blog is still a baby but, I also wanted to thank all those that have followed, liked, reblogged, read this blog! You have made my year :)

Wishing you all an auspicious and peaceful new year,

Kira <3

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Yabu Chosui | Portrait of a Rabbit, 1867 (at Llansanffraid Glan Conwy) https://www.instagram.com/p/Coyh1lpK-Ld/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Yabu Chosui

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Yabu Chosui (1824-1867): Portrait of a Rabbit.  Art Institute of Chicago.

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Portrait of a Rabbit, Yabu Chosui, 1867, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art

A large rabbit fills the entire surface of this print, indicating that it was created in the year of the rabbit. The curious, sacklike quality of the rabbit’s body is also a reference to the large white bag of Hotei, one of the gods of good fortune, who often appears on New Year visual art. The rabbit’s body is also rounded out to suggest a lopsided moon (the home of the rice-pounding rabbit), which is emphasized by its silvery outline. Finally, there is an allusion to the most common New Year symbol, the rising sun. Although the rising sun is usually represented as a luminous, round body against an orange sky, Yabu Chosui showed it as a rising lopsided rabbit against a flaming pink background. Charles H. Mitchell Collection unrestricted gift Size: 24.9 x 18.3 cm Medium: Color woodblock print; surimono

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/42068/

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It's been a long time since we posted anything on here. So many rabbits to share, so little time! Here is a fat one, called Portrait of a Rabbit, by Yabu Chosui, 1867. #rabbit #whiterabbit #illustration #art #lapinblanc https://ift.tt/31w4Ydd

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This adorably chubby rabbit was not created for Easter, but rather in celebration of the Lunar Year of the Rabbit. All the same, it captures quite well the feeling many of us will have after Easter dinner this afternoon. Happy Easter from all of us at the Art Institute! Image: [Not on display] Yabu Chosui. Portrait of a Rabbit, 1867. Charles H. Mitchell Collection.

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Yabu Chosui, Portrait of a Rabbit, 1867