Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun.
February 5, 2021 at 13:00 JST
A “hashika-e” from 1862 depicts the god of measles being carried off on bamboo poles. (Provided by the Tokyo Metropolitan Library)
At the height of a measles pandemic in 1862, a genre of ukiyo-e woodblock prints known as “hashika-e” (literally, measles pictures) disseminated a mountain of gossip and hearsay. [Read More]
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