# Setsubun

- By: Tani Buncho (Edo (historische plaatsnaam), 1763–1842)
- Date: 1773 - 1842
- Medium: paper, ink
- Classification: hanging scroll
- Dimensions: height 34 cm x width 58.5 cm
- Credit line: Gift of J.P. Filedt Kok, Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-RAK-2015-2-3--4fe8af022ac6a44b1d600f416daad61d)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/33f4fec1fbef518974454f84c9f51a29.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Setsubun is part of the Japanese New Year’s celebration. Beans are then strewn about as a symbol of purity and to drive away evil spirits. Here, in a comic twist, this is done by Shoki, the mythical vanquisher of ghosts and evil spirits. The painter Tani Buncho was a master in figure studies. He sketched the exorcist and the little demon with an unerring brush.