Honen [ ] no tewaza

Description Provenance Inscription Credit

Description A woman dressed in the simple cotton clothes of a farmer is carrying a tray of rice cakes and the rest of a meal wrapped in a decorative cloth. The tool on her back is used to cut mature rice stalks.

Provenance C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.

Inscriptions [Signature] Kochoen Shunsho ga

Credit Gift of Justine Lewis Keidel, 1991

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Creator

Utagawa Shunsho (Japanese, 1830-1854) (Artist)

Period

ca. 1851-53 (late Edo)

Medium

mulberry paper, pigments
(Prints)

Accession Number

95.680

Measurements

14 3/4 x 10 1/16 in. (37.4 x 25.5 cm)

Geographies

Japan (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View