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Fox in Women’s Clothing
Also titled Vos in vrouwenkleding
Shibata Gito (1780–1819)
c. 1800 - c. 1819
- Medium
- paper, ink, dye
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- diameter 29 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift of C.S. Lechner, 1948)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
In Japan, foxes have traditionally been attributed spiritual powers. Consequently, there are many Japanese legends about foxes assuming the form of a human. Gito worked out the upper part of the figure, but used only a few lines for the legs to indicate the fleeting nature of the apparition.
