La discussion sur les tortues va bon train dans mon dernier message. Hatsuo me donne ces informations qui intéresseront sans doute les contributeurs :
"I found an interesting site about tortues during the Edo period. The Ukiyoe you see is done by Hiroshige. You might have seen it before. It’s a very strange composition and in the distance you see Mt. Fuji, too. The river is the Sumida. It is the same river we cruised last year from Asakusa. The tortue in the picture is for sale, it seems. If you go down the page, you see a smaller black-and-white picture of a man selling tortues. The writer of this page talks about a strange custom at the time of buying animals like tortues, birds, fish and then releasing them to the nature. This custom appears to come from Buddhism. At festivals in temples and shrines, there were many animal sellers and adults would buy those creatures and then let them go into the river or mountains, thinking that this act would bring a good luck to them. Of course, apart from this custom, children kept animals as pets in Edo. I think the reason for the lash attached to the tortue in Hokusai’s Ukiyoe is so that the creature won’t run away. It’s an interesting subject."
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