Ono no Tofu

1850-52 (Edo)

18.8 cm 25.3 cm

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Ono no Tofu, a 10th-century calligrapher and statesman, seven times failed to achieve promotion at the imperial court. Leaving the palace one day, he noticed a frog attempting to leap up to the branch of a willow tree. Seven times the frog leaped; seven times it failed. On the...

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Justine Lewis Keidel [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1986, by gift.
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Osaka School
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