Minneapolis Institute of Art
Boy's Festival
Utagawa Kunisada
- Date
- 1830s
- Medium
- Hanging scroll (hanging scroll), ink and color on silk
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Utagawa Kunisada’s painting captures a typical scene during Boy’s Day, a festival expressing a community’s aspirations for the health and well-being of their male children. Three children dance around a half-clad man, who holds up a puppet of a famous warrior placed on a black pedestal. Above and behind them is a large banner with Shōki, the Demon Queller; a similar one hangs nearby in this room. Japan, Asia
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