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| Keywords: Okabe - The cat witch.jpg Creator Utagawa Kuniyoshi Kuniyoshi Utagawa Okabe c 1844 Cats have been held in a very low esteem might be that in some version recounting the death of the buddha they appear as the only animals not to weep In Kuniyoshi's time it was believed that when a girl visited a temple after dark she took the risk of being greeted by an old woman who would offer her to stay the night Once inside the house the old woman would become a witch and devour her Therefore a cat around a temples could be the witch in a cat form Source http //visipix com/search/search php userid 1616934267 q 272aAuthors/K/Kuniyoshi 201797-1861 2C 20Utagawa 2C 20Japan 27 s 23 l en u 2 ub 1 k 1 PD-old-100 Cats in Japanese art Folklore of Japan Witches Ukiyo-e prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi Bakeneko Artworks missing infobox template | ||||
