Kashira with Sea Bream and Bamboo

Description A sea bream ("tai") is depicted lying on bamboo. The fish is shown as foodstuff, not a living animal. Tai are often eaten at celebratory occasions because the syllable "tai" is part of the word for "auspicious" ("medetai").

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

Inscriptions none

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters