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Namazu-e (鯰絵) Fukusuke, Ebisu, Daikoku and Son of Yama, admonishing the head god of good fortune (福助・恵比寿・大黒・閻魔の子 福神長者を諭す)

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Japanese colour woodblock print showing three figures distributing coins among scrambling men on ground

Namazu-e (鯰絵) Fukusuke, Ebisu, Daikoku and Son of Yama, admonishing the head god of good fortune (福助・恵比寿・大黒・閻魔の子 福神長者を諭す)

Date: 1855
Medium: O-ban Nishiki-e (大判錦絵, large-format coloured print)
Object number: O.11.18
DescriptionA print published shortly after the Ansei earthquake (安政の大地震) of 2 October 1855.

Some understood earthquakes as equalising wealth imbalances.