Keywords: Hamano Toshiyuki - Kashira with A Nightingale on a Plum Tree Branch - Walters 511087.jpg A nightingale on a plum tree branch 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 because it will leave the nightingale without a place to perch This is part of a set with Walters 51 1086 ca 1875 late Edo-Meiji silver gold cm 3 3 accession number 51 1087 36482 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 place of origin Edo present-day Tokyo Japan Walters Art Museum license Fuchi in the Walters Art Museum Hamano Toshiyuki Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review |