The Chinese Carp
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA INV 10000082
label: Variant Title
content: Li Yeu tian long man
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Xu Hui Qin
setName: label: See more items in
content: MS 7422 Paintings of mythological figures
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Paintings (visual works)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1909 March
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Paintings (visual works)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A grey fish swimming among green plants.

English inscription reads:

Li Yeu tian long mun
The Chinese Carp
Sacred fish of the Buddhists which they (the people who buy it from the Buddhist priest) set free as an act of merit and then catch and sell again to others.  It enables the person who lets it go to become a great scholar.