http://collections.mfa.org/internal/media/dispatcher/1102414/resize%3Aformat%3Dfull;jsessionid=BBA157BADBB80D6169A97B3AE3209C41There Was a Man of Tsukushi, Said to Be an Officer in the Provincial Forces, Who Believed That Daikon Radishes Were a Remedy for All Ailments ... (Tsukushi ni nanigashi ōryōshi nado iu mono arikeru ga tsuchi-oone o yorozu ni imijiki kusuri to te ...), from the series Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa)about 1831–32 (Tenpō 2–3)Totoya HokkeiWoodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper... and so he ate two of them every day, the story continues. Once when attacked by enemies, he was saved by two mysterious soldiers who explained to him that they were the spirits of the radishes. From section 68 of Tsurezuregusa (a collection of essays by Kenkō, written in the early 1330s). Commissioned by the Manjiren poetry circle. Poem translated in Ohki w/ Haliburton 2020, p. 116, McKee 2006, p. 97; also described, but not translated, in Mirviss w/ Carpenter 2000, p. 100. MFA impressions: 11.25451, 51.34Prints21.0000000000 Centimeterhttp://collections.mfa.org/objects/detailsrdf/255063;jsessionid=BBA157BADBB80D6169A97B3AE3209C41