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Ota Dokan approached an inn on a rainy day to request the loan of a rain coat. Instead, the maid brought him a Yamabuki flower on a tray. Her meaning was expressed by the poem "Although having many petals the Yamabuki, to our regret, has no seed." The word "mino" can mean both seed and grass rain coat. (Henri Joly, "Legend in Japanese Art") Ota wears a green kimono, deerskin trousers and a straw hat; he holds a fan in his right hand and rests his left on his sword while he gazes down at the maid. Behind him an attendant wearing a straw hood and gaiters with his trousers, kimono and vest squats on the ground. The maid crouches before Ota, her head respectfully bowed, offering a tray upon which lies the Yamabuki flower; behind her grows a bush of the same. Diptych.
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