| "Mushrooms on millet" refers to mushrooms growing on millet ears. By extension, it means that "good things produced even better things." This set of menuki depicts mushrooms on a millet ear. The inscription on the box, "Period: Muromachi, around Tenbun era. Design of mushrooms on a millet ear. Made by Sojo [宗乗](2nd), Kiwame by Teijo [程乗] (9th). good condition and valuable. Shunseki [旬石]." Shunseki who is unknown, but it means that the menuki was considered as valuable by a enthusiast. It has passed the Hozon Tosogu shinsa and has been attributed to the Kyo-kinko Tradition in the 2004. |
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