EditorialPlaying Battledore and Shuttlecock on New Year's Day. Katsukawa Shuncho; Japanese, active c. 1780-1801. Date: 1780-1790. Dimensions: 38.2 x 51.7 cm. Color woodblock print; oban diptych. Origin: Japan.
EditorialPlaying Battledore and Shuttlecock on New Year's Day. Katsukawa Shuncho; Japanese, active c. 1780-1801. Date: 1780-1790. Dimensions: 38.2 x 51.7 cm. Color woodblock print; oban diptych. Origin: Japan.
EditorialBattledore showing a mermaid. In pre-Christian times, bird-siren and mermaid were the attributes of a goddess of an agricultural cult, later they became symbols of joy and happiness. From the Upper Volga region.
EditorialThe Actor Nakamura Gentaro as a woman playing battledore and shuttlecock. Torii Kiyomasu I; Japanese, active c. 1704-18 (?). Date: 1704-1718. Dimensions: 57.3 ? 32.0 cm. Woodblock print; o-oban, sumizuri-e. Origin: Japan.
EditorialNew Year Games of Shuttlecock, Battledore, and Hand Ball, from the illustrated book "Picture Book: Flowers of the Four Seasons (Ehon shiki no hana)," vol. 1. Kitagawa Utamaro ??? ??; Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806. Date: 1801. Dimensions: . Color woodblock pr...
EditorialPlaying Battledore and Shuttlecock on New Year's Day. Katsukawa Shuncho; Japanese, active c. 1780-1801. Date: 1780-1790. Dimensions: 38.2 x 51.7 cm. Color woodblock print; oban diptych. Origin: Japan.
EditorialThe Actor Nakamura Gentaro as a woman playing battledore and shuttlecock. Torii Kiyomasu I; Japanese, active c. 1704-18 (?). Date: 1704-1718. Dimensions: 57.3 ? 32.0 cm. Woodblock print; o-oban, sumizuri-e. Origin: Japan.
EditorialWoman Playing a New Year's Game of Battledore and Shuttlecock, Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, 30 5/8 x 10 1/4 in. (77.8 x 26 cm), Paintings.
EditorialMedieval man and woman playing a game of battledore and shuttlecock on a bridge over a river. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by J. E. Rogers from Francis Cowley Burnand's "Present Pastimes of Merrie England, Cassell, London, 1873.
EditorialBattledore showing a mermaid. In pre-Christian times, bird-siren and mermaid were the attributes of a goddess of an agricultural cult, later they became symbols of joy and happiness. From the Upper Volga region.