National Treasures & Important Cultural Properties
of National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, Japan

This piece is considered to be part of the book of secrets for horse doctors, Baisoushi-emaki, cut off and handed down. The Tokyo National Museum version of Baisoushi-emaki (one-scroll, Important Cultural Property, donated by Okazaki Masaya) pictures ten excellent doctors in Japan and China, including Hakuraku (although the portrait of Hakuraku on the top page is missing), seven excellent horses in the stable, and seventeen kinds of medicinal plants. The fifth person in that emaki is Ten, with the horse called Kuwauriu painted on the viewer's left. This fragment corresponds to that part. The picture of this piece is almost identical to that, except that the left-hind leg of the horse is bent. As the depiction is more precise than the emaki, this one is thought to have been painted earlier than that.