Lot Essay
Kanshin had been challenged to a fight and by refusing had had to accept the undignified alternative of crawling through his challenger's legs
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An embroidered picture finely worked in coloured twisted silks depicting Kanshin crawling through the legs of a man and two others looking on, in a desert landscape--34in x 26in. (85cm x 65cm), framed and glazed, Japanese, 19th century
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