Footnotes

• This outstanding zansaisage was formerly in the collection of the businessman Baron Gō Seinosuke, best known in the art world for the collection of netsuke which he donated to Tokyo National Museum. Of senior samurai origin, he studied in Germany and on his return built an industrial conglomerate based on mining, paper, and clothing. He later served as Chairman of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and was appointed to the House of Peers in 1911. For another similar example, see Link, 1979, cat. no. 64.
  
  A design similar to this, but with the horse already eating or drinking from the bucket, is included in a collection of surimono (privately commissioned prints) by Zeshin, entitled Zeshin ga sōsho (Collected paintings by Zeshin) and dating from the Kaei era (1848–1854) to the Meiji era, in the National Diet Library (call number ゑ-258); a related zansaisage or tonkotsu is in the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
  
  Zeshin was fond of depicting broken-down buildings in both painting and lacquer, particularly in designs alluding to the penurious Chinese scholar Shain (Chinese: Che Yin). For examples, see Izzard 2007, cat. no. 40 and Earle and Gōke 1996, cat. no. 49).