Tsuba with Kikujidô (the Chrysanthemum Boy) Writing on Leaves

1825-1891 (late Edo-Meiji)

6.8 cm 7.6 cm 0.4 cm

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Seated at the lower right is Kikujidô (the Chrysanthemum Boy). He holds a brush in his right hand, chrysanthemum leaves in his left hand, and is surrounded by blooming chrysanthemums. He would write on chrysanthemum leaves and drop them into the stream. Kikujidô was an attenda...

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