Kozuka with the Queen Mother of the West Carrying Peaches

ca. 1850 (late Edo) L: 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm) Citation Source image

The Queen Mother of the West, or Seiôbo, lives in a mountain paradise. The trees in her garden produce peaches that give the eater immortality, but they only bloom once every three thousand years. She is shown carrying a basket of peaches.

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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