A kakemono (hanging scroll) painted in ink with menpeki (wall-facing) Daruma

Inscribed: Menpeki no soshi no sugata wa Yamashiro no Yawata no hata no uri ka nasubi ka (The shape of Daruma facing the wall, isn’t it like a melon or an aubergine from the fields of Yawata in Yamashiro?)

Signed: Kokikaroku-ō Nantenbō (Nantenbō at the age of seventy-six)*

Sealed:

Upper: Nantenbō; Middle: Hakugaikutsu, Tōjū; Lower: Tōjū

Japan, early 20th century, 1915*

Dimensions:

Scroll: H. 170cm x W. 46.5cm (67" x 18½")

Painting: H. 94cm x W. 33cm (37½" x 13")