Description
The characters mean, "Happiness is a long life of fortune and upright character." Such a saying is Chinese Confucian in character, and Beian has written it in ancient Chinese clerical script.
Provenance
Mami Yasukochi, Tokyo; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 1990, by purchase.
Inscriptions
[Signature] Beian Sangai; [Seal] Two seals below signature: Ichikawa Sangai-in and Ekito-jin; [Seal] In upper right: Beian; [Translation] Happiness is a long life of fortune and upright character
Credit
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Ambassador and Mrs. William J. Sebald Fund, 1990