Description
This small teapot (kyusu) is inscribed with a "waka" poem by Rengetsu I.
Provenance
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1878, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Poem] Yo no chiri o / yosoni harahite / yukusue no / chiyo o shimetaru / yado no matsukaze; [Translation] May the pine wind flowing, flowing, through the house, brush away the dust, of the ages
Credit
Acquired by William T. Walters, 1878