Comment - This surimono carries an otafuku kite, one of three types of Nagoya Koryu kite types. The Nagoya Koryu kite has a complicated frame, and carries a hummer (kite musical instrument) with a hight pitched voice. The picture on the kite carries the face of Okame, the Goddess of Mirth. The kite line lays on the ground, a typical kite line spool is to be seen. A poem (not read) dominates the left half of the surimono.


Series - none


Artist -  see Biography


Signature - Chosho (長渚) with an epithet ( YoshiDoJi, 義 童子?) and his red seal


Publisher - none (privately commissioned, Surimono)


Image Size - 18.4 X 24.0 cm (7 1/4" x 9 7/16")


Condition - single sheet; nishiki-e (cloured woodblock); horizontal ôban; Yoko-e (landscape)