It is good to harden the teeth; Hagatame oshi; A series for the Hanazono poets association; Hanazono bantsuzuki. A woman uses a knife to cut dried rice cake, with behind her New Year decorations. At the start of the new year it was eating hard things such as dried rice cake something that one would make the teeth harder and would also extend life. With two poems. The prints from this series are in line with the belief that the first activities of the new year were extra special. The red cartouche on the prints refers to almanacs that indicated which activities did not or better not to be taken
It is good to harden the teeth; Hagatame oshi; A series for the Hanazono poets association; Hanazono bantsuzuki. A woman uses a knife to cut dried rice cake, with behind her New Year decorations. At the start of the new year it was eating hard things such as dried rice cake something that one would make the teeth harder and would also extend life. With two poems. The prints from this series are in line with the belief that the first activities of the new year were extra special. The red cartouche on the prints refers to almanacs that indicated which activities did not or better not to be taken on certain days by people born in a given year.
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