Umabari with Waves and Clouds

Description A crashing wave is at the left of the composition, with two small clouds on the right. The background is worked in fish egg pattern ("nanako-ji"). Umabari were carried in place of kogai in Higo province (modern-day Kumamoto). They were used to stimulate horses. This is part of a mounted set.

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

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters