Painted with a hare pounding mochi and standing on clouds in finely drawn black lacquer lines. Inscription reading: gyonen nanajunana so (old man at the age of 77 years) Zeshin. The base lacquered black. Small silver lacquer repairs to the rim evoking mochi-sprinkles. Wooden box with a long inscription dated Showa 1957, at the side an old paper label reading: Zeshin urushi-e shu bon. Dimensions Height 2.9 cm; diameter 24 cm Medium Button2 Literature Cf. a similar motif in: The Art of Shibata Zeshin. The Mr and Mrs James O'Brien Collection at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Honolulu 1979, p. 151, ill. 89 Provenance Private collection, Berlin Notes VAT: Margin scheme