A Warrior Holding a Pestle, 1829 print The Warrior Asahina Saburo, with make -up actorous make -up, holds a bat in the right hand and a mask of the happiness goddess, okame, in the left. His pants have a pattern of cherry blossom floating in a light blue river. Spring blossom in the background. The mask and the bat refer to a kind of tag between Hofdames at the Oude Hof. The belief was that the one who was tapped would marry the following year. paper color woodcut actor (on the stage). mask. weapons for striking a blow: club

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