MAKE A MEME View Large Image Japanese - Kozuka with A Traveling Case and Ivy ("Tales of Ise") - Walters 51845.jpg A wicker backpack is shown sitting on a small mound covered in ivy This is a reference to an episode in the 9th chapter of the Tales of Ise a 10th-century ...
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Keywords: Japanese - Kozuka with A Traveling Case and Ivy ("Tales of Ise") - Walters 51845.jpg A wicker backpack is shown sitting on a small mound covered in ivy This is a reference to an episode in the 9th chapter of the Tales of Ise a 10th-century collection of stories The hero Ariwara no Narihira 825-880 was exiled from Kyoto While wandering through Japan with two companions he met a traveling monk in the area of modern day Shizuoka The monk was wearing a pack like the one depicted here and the road was covered with ivy Narihira asked the monk to take a letter back to the capital for him The episode is sometimes called the Narrow Ivy Way century 19 Edo-Meiji shakudo shibuichi copper silver and gold cm 9 6 l accession number 51 845 32939 William T / Henry Walters Collection Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T or Henry Walters none The Taste of Maryland Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 place of origin Japan Walters Art Museum license Tosogu Japanese sword fittings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review The Tales of Ise
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