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ANONYMOUS, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
A HANDSCROLL DEPICTING STREET VENDORS
Sumi and coloured pigments on paper, mounted as a handscroll, dated summer 1829
Lively depictions of twenty-three street vendors selling food, sweets, toys and medicines, each painting accompanied by calligraphic text explaining the vendor's trade, together with a light verse on the subject
12cm. x 12 metres
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Amongst the vendors depicted are those selling various sweets, tea, pepper, Noh dolls, ghost dolls and butterfly toys.

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