Description
A large chrysanthemum and another flower decorate the front of the kozuka. This is part of a mounted set.
Provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Inscription] 東都於忍岡邊; [Transliteration] Tôto oite Shinobugaoka atari; [Translation] in the area of Shinobugaoka, Tokyo; [Signature] 東山刻; [Transliteration] Tôzan koku; [Translation] carved by Tôzan
Credit
Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters