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This is a 17th-century engraving titled Allegory of Death or Death holds a scroll while standing at an open grave, likely created around 1600.

The image features a skeleton holding a banderolle with the Latin text "Vigilate quia nescitis diem nec horam". "Watch, for you do not know the day nor the hour."

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１９６３年　映画「越前竹人形」若尾文子

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1963 still from the film "Echizen Takeru Ningo" Wakao Fumiko

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Astrological interpretation of the signs, The astrologer of the nineteenth century, 1825

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Ouija and Witches Clubs, Tatler, 1912

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Furisode, Late Edo period (1789–1868), 19th century, Japan

Silk, 4:1 satin damask weave (rinzu); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in satin stitches; laid work and couching, and padded couching; lined with silk, plain weave 183.8 x 128.8 cm (72 ¼ x 50 ¾ in.) Gift of Gaylord Donnelley in memory of Frances Gaylord Smith, 1991.637. Art Institute of Chicago

This furisode, a long-sleeved garment worn by children and unmarried women on special occasions, belonged to a family whose crest was the tachibana, the flower of the Mandarin orange. Made of rinzu (a soft, luxurious silk), it was probably used as an uchikake, an outer coat worn without an obi, which would have interrupted the flow of the patterning. A blossoming plum tree embroidered with gold and white silk thread spreads its branches from hem to shoulder. The red fabric is woven in a sagayata pattern of key-fret lozenges, over which individual orchids or chrysanthemums are scattered. The carefully delineated picture of a tree shows the influence of Western art on Japanese design. Needlework typical of this period was used to realistically portray the contours of the tree trunk. First the edges of the trunk were padded with a heavy thread; then, over this padding, gold-wrapped thread was couched with red silk thread.

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# 4: Furisode by Suzunoya. Japan

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Tattoo artist Horiyoshi III… Irezumi 入墨. About 1970’s, Japan.

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_Jose Luiz Benicio

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German vintage postcard

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illustration from Doktor Johannes Faust’s Magia naturalis et innaturalis, 1849

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John Everett Millais (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) The Bridesmaid Oil on panel, 1851 20.3 x 27.9 cm (7.99" x 10.98") Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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