Fox fires on New Year's Eve near the Shozoku nettle tree in Oji, Utagawa Hiroshige
Foxes with dancing flames beside their heads, gathering near a large bare tree, among rice hulls, at night; on the dark plain in the background more foxes approaching. Fox spirits were seen as protectors of the rice harvest and would gather around the nettle tree on New Year's Eve.
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