EditorialButtons of Victoire Cheval Blanc Murao III, the mascot for Hakuba, a village in Nagano Prefecture, at the Yuru-chara Grand Prix in Nagano, Japan, Nov. 3, 2019. (Noriko Hayashi/The New York Times)
EditorialHakuba no Sechie, Edo period (1615?1868), Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 9 in. (22.9 cm); W. 14 in. (35.6 cm), Prints, Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739?1820).