Fuchi with Landscape with a Bridge

Description At the right of the composition, a gentleman in Chinese style dress is beginning to cross a bridge. On the other side of the bridge is a pavillion. This design invokes Chinese landscapes and the idea of a scholar retreating to a hut. The fuchi is part of a set with Walters 51.910.

Provenance William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Signature] 栄川直義; [Translation] Eikawa Naoyoshi

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters