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The Seven Gods of Good Fortune Arm-wrestling

The Seven Gods of Good Fortune Arm-wrestling
by Oneisai (c1750)

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Artist: Oneisai (c1750)
Title: The Seven Gods of Good Fortune Arm-wrestling
Series: 
Date of first edition?: Not set
Publisher (first edition)?: Not Set
Publisher (this edition)?: Not Set
Medium (first edition): Woodblock
Medium (this edition): Woodblock
Format (first edition): Not Set
Format (this edition): Not Set
DB artwork code: 28510
Notes (first edition)?: 
Notes (this edition)?: 
The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:

The Seven Gods of Good Fortune Arm-wrestling , by Oneisai (ca. 1750)

You probably can't figure out what's going on here. The round white circle just below the center of the composition is where you would place a cylinder with an mirrored outer surface. You could then see what the image really looked like in the surface of the cylindrical mirror. This kind of picture was known as a saya-e or sword scabbard picture in Japan. This name derives from the fact that if you stand up the shiny lacquered scabbard of a sword, you can see strange forms reflected in its shiny surface.

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