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Here's a cold day in 1832 (at least that's when this print was made). Might as well wear whatever's comfy, break out a book and stay under the kotatsu, the blanket-covered framework that hides a small heat source. Oh look, the cat found the warmest spot in the room.
This print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi is part of a series referring to a classic Chinese novel, Suikoden or Water Margin, which recounts the adventures of 108 outlaws. According to the Rijkmuseum our lounging pipe-smoking beauty and her friend refer to one particular outlaw, Wu Sung, who killed a tiger with his bare hands. Guess who's meant to be the tiger. I wouldn't worry about him.
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Kotatsu. That's a word that needs to be in my vocabulary. When I used to go camping, carrying my tent on my back, I had a little spirit warmer as small as my hand, and used to have it under the blankets. Now I know what word defines such a thing. (Luckily I didn't burn myself! Ah, the ignorance of youth...)
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