“Kuniyoshi’s Cats,” from the series: A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo
Paul Binnie Scottish
Not on view
The body of a naked young man is covered with a tattoo based on the print triptych Cats as Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798–1861), published in 1849. The model is seated on a yellow and orange striped cushion (zabuton) with his pet cat alongside. Kuniyoshi, renowned for his prints on warrior themes, was also a cat lover and created a number of works incorporating feline subjects.
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