Otagaki Rengetsu | Dish

Ceramic dish for sweets by Kuroda Koryo, whose seal is impressed on the bottom of the piece. Rengetsu inscribed her poem in her wonderful and unmistakable hand writing.  
 
Counting back -
just three years
since planting this willow
now tall enough
to beat at my window!
 
Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) and
Kuroda Koryo (1823-1895)
Dish
Glazed ceramic
Width 15 cm (6 in.), Depth 12.5 cm (5 in.), Height 3 cm (1 in.)
 
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