Netsuke Carved in Shape of Folded Letter on Paper Decorated with Court Motifs, 19th century, Japan, Ivory, H. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); W. 2 in. (5.1 cm), Netsuke, This realistic design of autumn ivy, a common sight in Japan, is a motif that recalls the episode in Tales of lse (chapt. 9), in which the poet, traveling to the east along a dark and narrow route overgrown with ivy on Mount Utsu, crosses paths with a wandering ascetic returning to the capital to whom he entrusts a poem of love
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