Kozuka with a Bird on Flowering Plum Branch

Description A flowering plum branch enters the frame from the upper right and extends through the center of the piece. A brid sits on the branch at the right. The kozuka is signed on the reverse.

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Signature] 郎乗作　光佀; [Transliteration] Rôjô saku Mitsutomo; [Translation] Made by Rôjô, Mitsutomo

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters