{"id":378,"date":"2022-04-08T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/?p=378"},"modified":"2025-12-07T21:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:58:34","slug":"utagawa-kuniyoshi-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/2022\/04\/08\/utagawa-kuniyoshi-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Utagawa Kuniyoshi &#8220;Cats&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>4\/8 fri &#8211; Artifact &#8211; Utagawa Kuniyoshi  (1797-1861) &#8220;Cats&#8221;, 258 pieces &#8211; challenging; lots of little black &amp; white spotted cats, on a blue background, with many little red tags (name tags or activities?) &#8230; so hard &#8211; Ash &amp; me &amp; various PCAs (Abbey, Felicia) &amp; nurses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artifactpuzzles.com\/products\/cats\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.artifactpuzzles.com\/products\/cats\" target=\"_blank\">Artifact Puzzles<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;This 258 piece wooden jigsaw puzzle shows a 19th century woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi of 53 cats and one octopus (the signature animal of Kuniyoshi). The full title of this work is &#8220;Cats Suggested as the 53 Stations of Tokaido.&#8221; The puzzle pieces have a grid design with numerous cat-shaped whimsy pieces running amok (click on the small picture below the puzzle image to see example pieces), and were designed by Seattle artist Tara Flannery.&nbsp;&nbsp;This puzzle has a straight edge, but it&#8217;s harder than average.&nbsp;&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More info: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreatcat.org\/the-cat-in-art-and-photos-2\/cats-asian-art\/utagawa-kuniyoshi-1797-1861-japanese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thegreatcat.org\/the-cat-in-art-and-photos-2\/cats-asian-art\/utagawa-kuniyoshi-1797-1861-japanese<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arthur.io\/art\/utagawa-kuniyoshi\/cats-suggested-as-the-fifty-three-stations-of-the-tokaido\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/arthur.io\/art\/utagawa-kuniyoshi\/cats-suggested-as-the-fifty-three-stations-of-the-tokaido<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UtagawaKuniyoshiCats.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UtagawaKuniyoshiCats.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UtagawaKuniyoshiCats.png 756w, https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UtagawaKuniyoshiCats-300x153.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4\/8 fri &#8211; Artifact &#8211; Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) &#8220;Cats&#8221;, 258 pieces &#8211; challenging; lots of little black &amp; white spotted cats, on a blue background, with many little red tags (name tags or activities?) &#8230; so hard &#8211; Ash &amp; me &amp; various PCAs (Abbey, Felicia) &amp; nurses Artifact Puzzles &#8211; &#8220;This 258 piece wooden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,612],"tags":[],"artists":[133],"puzzling":[372],"makers":[7,171],"features":[368,480,106,8],"subjects":[10,25],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-completed","category-wooden-lasercut","artists-utagawa-kuniyoshi","puzzling-aqlq","makers-artifact-puzzles","makers-tara-flannery","features-cat-whimsies","features-laser-cut","features-whimsies","features-wooden","subjects-cats","subjects-public-domain-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UtagawaKuniyoshiCats.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/5664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"artists","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"puzzling","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/puzzling?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"makers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/makers?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"features","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/features?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subjects?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}