Kozuka with Mule Emerging from Gourd

ca. 1850 (Edo) L: 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm) Citation Source image

The horse at the upper left is emerging from the gourd at the lower right. This is an illustration of the idiom "like a horse coming out of a gourd," which is used to describe unexpected things. The saying may have developed from stories of the Chinese immortal Chokaro (Ch. Zh...

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