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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Children Blowing Up Hotei's Belly and Painting It Like Candy1882, May

Not on view
Horizontal woodblock print with flat color showing seven animated children in colorful robes surrounding a large pale sphere and a pine tree, with Chinese text and a red seal

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Children Blowing Up Hotei's Belly and Painting It Like Candy, 1882, May, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Herbert R. Cole Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title
Children Blowing Up Hotei's Belly and Painting It Like Candy
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1882, May
Period
Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Color woodblock print
Dimensions
Image: 6 1/2 × 9 5/16 in. (16.51 × 23.65 cm) Sheet: 7 1/16 × 9 5/16 in. (17.94 × 23.65 cm)
Credit Line
Herbert R. Cole Collection
Accession Number
M.84.31.350
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art