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The order of mochi-making goes from the lower right to the lower left and then to the upper left and over to the upper right. The "glorious" makers are 1) Oe Hiromoto (1148-1225) cooking rice 2) Wada Yoshimori (1147-1213) soaking mallets in water 3) Taira no Kiyomori (1118-81) pounding rice into paste 4) Minamoto no Yoshinaka (1154-84) turning rice dough in the tub as it is being pounded 5) Hojo Tokimasa (1138-1215) cooling hot mochi dough with a fan 6) Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159-89) putting flour on a board to form mochi cakes 6) amako (a nun) serving mochi to Yoritomo 7) Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147-99) eating mochi.
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Document identity
localId
16803
label
Kamakura ei hei [ ]
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object
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1
Source metadata
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16803
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object
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normalized
title
Kamakura ei hei [ ]
description
The order of mochi-making goes from the lower right to the lower left and then to the upper left and over to the upper right. The "glorious" makers are 1) Oe Hiromoto (1148-1225) cooking rice 2) Wada Yoshimori (1147-1213) soaking mallets in water 3) Taira no Kiyomori (1118-81) pounding rice into paste 4) Minamoto no Yoshinaka (1154-84) turning rice dough in the tub as it is being pounded 5) Hojo Tokimasa (1138-1215) cooling hot mochi dough with a fan 6) Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159-89) putting flour on a board to form mochi cakes 6) amako (a nun) serving mochi to Yoritomo 7) Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147-99) eating mochi.
provenance
Robert S. Shaull [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1990, by bequest.
date
1867 (late Edo)
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
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color woodcuts
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1
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1
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import
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inscriptions
[Publisher Seal] Kinrindo
med
pigments on mulberry paper
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6194
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JPK
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none
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1
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0
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photo
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