Blind man on high wooden sandals (Ashida) with a long staff has come to a pillar in the temple, where he feels his way around, signed.
Provenance
Acquired in 1908 by Herbert Ginsberg in Japan; 1908 to 1942 Ostasiatica Collection Herbert Ginsberg, Berlin; confiscated by the SD in Rotterdam in 1942.
Literature / Source
Undatierter Katalog (um Nov. 1929), in: DigiBaeck, Leo Baeck Institute New York (LBI NY), Gilbert Family Collection, AR 1028/MF 818, Box 7, folder 4, S. 690-921, Abschnitt netsuke, Diverse, Nr. 184.