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Source Description
Depicted here on the right are a woman and her husband, who happens to be a dog: the woman's father the Lord of Satomi had vowed to present her to whoever brought him the head of his enemy, and it was brought by a dog. The couple pass an oxherd on their way to a mountain abode, where the woman will give birth to eight sons, each representing a traditional Chinese virtue (loyalty, wisdom, truthfulness, and so forth), the names of which appear around the neck of the vase. The story was taken from an early 19th-century Japanese novel, "Hakkenden," "The Story of Eight Dogs."
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Document identity
localId
34624
label
Vase
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
34624
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Vase
description
Depicted here on the right are a woman and her husband, who happens to be a dog: the woman's father the Lord of Satomi had vowed to present her to whoever brought him the head of his enemy, and it was brought by a dog. The couple pass an oxherd on their way to a mountain abode, where the woman will give birth to eight sons, each representing a traditional Chinese virtue (loyalty, wisdom, truthfulness, and so forth), the names of which appear around the neck of the vase. The story was taken from an early 19th-century Japanese novel, "Hakkenden," "The Story of Eight Dogs."
provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1870s (Meiji)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Metal
vases
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
61.6
height
40
dimensionsRaw
24 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. (61.6 x 40 cm)
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
momose shigesato chu; [Translation] Cast by Momose Shigesato
med
bronze
creator_ids
5815
collection_ids
JPK
exhibition_ids
2065
Single page context
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1
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0
type
photo
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d99c00ec8559d263