Fuchi with Three Yamabushi

Description Two yamabushi monks are depicted on the front of the fuchi, and a third is on the reverse. They wear the distinctive yamabushi clothing, including a small hat and a sash with pom-poms around their necks. They carry wicker packs and walking sticks. Yamabushi lived in the mountain where they practiced a religious tradition that mixed elements of Shintoism and Buddhism. This is part of a set with Walters 51.1059.

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

Inscriptions [Signature] 赤城軒　泰山元壽; [Translation] Sekijoken Taizan Mototoshi (kao)

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters