Ink or watercolor has been placed on a cloth type backing of gold design with small flowers and swirls. Attached on each end with a plastic tube of that time. Wrapped in a Japanese newspaper of the day given to great grand father Grimmesey. Placed in a Tomobako box with a tag on the end 179. In the box is also a business card with a Thank You note and other side the company my great grandfather came to help from the United States ( East Coast). We were told the self portrait was probably placed on the newer (1920-30) background and scrolls changed because it was illegal to have this artwork when my grandfather left Japan. Not knowing what he had. As far as I know not really displayed except when I was a young girl. It hung by our furnace. Maybe 8-10 years. We moved and it went back in to the box.

I really don’t know. I have enclosed a picture with one of my brothers and I standing with it. I am 5’1”