# Battledore and Shuttlecock

- By: Tsukioka Settei (Japanese, 1710-1786)
- Date: c.1769–1772
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink, colors, and gold on silk
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 124.4 x 50.1 cm Height: mount 81 1/2" Height, ptg. 49" Width: mount 24 5/8" Width. ptg. 19 3/4"
- Culture: Japan
- Credit line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/32676)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/12a26c2d2e47aa97993223f585b0db1a.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This painting depicts a New Year’s party in which five girls play a game of battledore and shuttlecock (similar to badminton, but with paddles instead of racquets). They stand before an open doorway trimmed on either side with kadomatsu (pine of the doorway), which is traditionally used at the New Year. Above the door is another seasonal decoration made up of fern leaves, smaller yuzuri (evergreen) leaves, a lobster, and a peach, all emblematic of long life and good fortune.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0