File:Keigetsu - Tsuba with the Mule of the Taoist Immortal Chokaro Emerging from a Magic Gourd - Walters 51221 - Back.jpg
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Size of this preview: 555 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 222 × 240 pixels | 444 × 480 pixels | 711 × 768 pixels | 948 × 1,024 pixels | 1,665 × 1,799 pixels.
Original file (1,665 × 1,799 pixels, file size: 1.73 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Captions
Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
Summary
[edit]Tsuba with the Mule of the Taoist Immortal Chokaro Emerging from a Magic Gourd
(   ) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist |
Keigetsu (Japanese) |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title |
Tsuba with the Mule of the Taoist Immortal Chokaro Emerging from a Magic Gourd |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: The horse at the upper left of this tsuba is emerging from the gourd at the lower right. This is an illustration of the idiom "like a horse coming out of a gourd," which is used to describe unexpected things. The saying may have developed from stories of the Chinese immortal Chokaro (Ch. Zhang Guo [Chang Kuo]) who carried his magical mule in a gourd. On the reverse, the phrase "Ningen banji" is inscribed along the upper and left sections. These are the first words of the proverb "Human affairs are like Saio's horse." This proverb means that things which may appear to be good fortune can sometimes be bad luck and visa versa. It comes from a story about an old man named Saio who had good luck and bad luck brought to him through incidents with his horse. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1846 (Edo) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | sentoku, copper, gold, and copper alloy | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 8 cm (3.1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accession number |
51.221 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of creation | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inscriptions |
[Date] Koka san hinoe-uma toshi/Haru sangatsu koku; [Translation] Carved in the springtime, third month of the third year of Koka (1846), the year of the fiery horse; [Inscription] Ningen-banji; [Translation] The happenings of man [are like Saio's horse] (proverb); [Signature] Ka[ ]sui; [Seal] Keigetsu |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source |
Walters Art Museum:  Home page  Info about artwork |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
[edit]
|
This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the Walters Art Museum as part of a cooperation project. All artworks in the photographs are in public domain due to age. The photographs of two-dimensional objects are also in the public domain. Photographs of three-dimensional objects and all descriptions have been released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License.
In the case of the text descriptions, copyright restrictions only apply to longer descriptions which cross the threshold of originality.
|
- Object
-
This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.
You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. - Photograph
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.Attribution: Walters Art Museum- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
- You are free:
|
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. |
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 11:19, 25 March 2012 | | 1,665 × 1,799 (1.73 MB) | File Upload Bot (Kaldari) (talk | contribs) | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Walters Art Museum artwork |artist = Keigetsu (Japanese) |title = ''Tsuba with the Mule of the Taoist Immortal Chokaro Emerging from a Magic Gourd'' |description = {{en|The horse at the upper left of t... |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
