Tsuka with Autumn Flowers, Plum Blossoms and Nightingale

19th century (Edo-Meiji) L: 4 7/16 in. (11.2 cm) Citation Source image

The kashira depicts a nightingale on a flowering plum tree branch with its beak open in song. The subject is a reference to a poem by the Chinese poet Hakurakuten (Ch. Bai Juyi [Po Chü-i]) (772-847). In the poem, the owner of a plum tree refuses to cut off a flowering branch b...

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79639
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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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