Kozuka with A Traveling Case and Ivy (""Tales of Ise"")

19th century (Edo-Meiji) 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm) (l.) Citation Source image

A wicker backpack is shown sitting on a small mound covered in ivy. This is a reference to an episode in the 9th chapter of the Tales of Ise, a 10th-century collection of stories. The hero, Ariwara no Narihira (825-880) was exiled from Kyoto. While wandering through Japan with...

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