Three sake bowls, Three varnished rice wine (sake) saucers on crepe paper. One bowl is upside down, the other two are depicted with a carp and a dragon swimming up against a waterfall. This refers to the belief that carp that could swim against a certain river eventually turned into dragons. With three poems., Ryûryûkyo Shinsai (mentioned on object), Japan, 1820, paper, colour woodcut, h 199 mm × w 181 mm
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