Turtles Climbing a New Year's Decoration, Katsukawa Shunei, c. 1790 - c. 1800 print A group of long -haired turtles (minogam) climb New Year's decorations including rice cookies and ferns. The round shape of the rice cookies symbolizes infinity. The long -haired turtle symbolizes a long happy life, because of his tail of seaweed, which he would get after he lived for 1000 years. Japan paper color woodcut tortoises, turtles

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