MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | Yokoya_Somin_-_Kozuka_with_Chokaro_Summoning_a_Mule_from_a_Gourd_-_Walters_51712.jpg (555x1797) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: Yokoya Somin - Kozuka with Chokaro Summoning a Mule from a Gourd - Walters 51712.jpg The gourd at the bottom of the composition frames the figures of the immortal Chokaro Ch Zhang Guo Chang Kuo and a boy attendant They are looking up towards the top of the gourd where Chokaro's magic mule is being released The mule lived in the gourd until Chokaro needed it It could carry Chokaro for thousands of miles and did not need to be fed The artist signed the kozuka on the reverse in part of the gourd cartouche that wraps around to the back between 1670 1733 Edo shibuichi silver gold cm 9 6 l accession number 51 712 22636 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Signature Sômin place of origin Edo present-day Tokyo Japan Walters Art Museum license Tosogu Japanese sword fittings in the Walters Art Museum Yokoya Somin Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
