New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji, 1857, 9th month, Utagawa Hiroshige; Publisher: Sakanaya Eikichi, Japanese, 1797 - 1858, 13 3/8 × 8 11/16 in. (34 × 22 cm) (image, vertical ōban), Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper with mica, Japan, 19th century, Most prints in Hiroshige’s One Hundred Views of Edo illustrate actual views, but this scene is imaginary. In Shinto belief, foxes are messengers of the gods and protectors of shrines dedicated to Inari, the god of grain. Ōji Shrine, in what is now the northern section of Tokyo, is one of the most important Inari

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