Shoijiri (On the Kiso Road)

Katsuyuki Nishijima

Showa period (1926-1989)

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Small bowl with carved rim, with chocolate glaze and molded cloud and bird motifs
Qilin is a mythological animal in the Chinese culture, it has some auspicious meaning. One of its iconographic features is that there is only one horn on it head. This piece does bear one horn while other parts of the image are more typical of a bull rather than a Quilin
Small print of scenes along the Tokaido.
View of Mississippi Bay, Yokohama (.26, recto); Shinto Temple Hachiman (.27, verso), Attributed to Kusakabe Kimbei, hand-colored albumen prints mounted to album page