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| Keywords: Momose Shigesato - Vase - Walters 541617.jpg Depicted here on the right are a woman and her husband who happens to be a dog the woman's father the Lord of Satomi had vowed to present her to whoever brought him the head of his enemy and it was brought by a dog The couple pass an oxherd on their way to a mountain abode where the woman will give birth to eight sons each representing a traditional Chinese virtue loyalty wisdom truthfulness and so forth the names of which appear around the neck of the vase The story was taken from an early 19th-century Japanese novel Hakkenden The Story of Eight Dogs s 1870 Meiji bronze cm 61 6 40 accession number 54 1617 34624 William T Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters momose shigesato chu; Translation Cast by Momose Shigesato Industry of Perfection The Refined Beauty of Japanese Cloisonne Enamels The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2009-2010 place of origin Tokyo Japan Walters Art Museum license Art of Japan in the Walters Art Museum Momose Shigesato Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review NansÅ Satomi Hakkenden | ||||
