Description
A peasant is shown kneeling on the ground, wearing a straw skirt. His head extends over the top edge of the fuchi. He may be bowing before the samurai depicted in the matching kashira, Walters 51.1037.
Provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Signature] 乙柳軒 五代目味墨; [Transliteration] Otsuryûken godaime Miboku; [Translation] Otsuryûken the fifth, Miboku
Credit
Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters
