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Colour woodcut of a long-haired woman in a leaf cloak seated by rocks and water, with a large black axe head with red markings behind her.

A wild mountain woman in a cloak of leaves seated by a rushing stream, behind her the head of a great axe, which belongs to her son Kintoki, the "child Hercules" of Japanese legend. Colour woodcut, 188-(?) after Hokkei, 182-.

A long-haired woman in a cloak of green leaves sits before pale rocks and rushing water, a blue patterned robe spread across her lap. Behind her rests a large black axe head marked with red, as the record identifies, in a colour woodcut with flat, layered inks.

Artist
Hokkei (Iwakubo Tatsuyuki), 1780-1850.
Date
[between 1880 and 1889?]
Medium
Woodcuts Mokuhanga
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
3406 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1899.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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