Kozuka with a Dog Chasing a Pilgrim

Description At the right is a dog who is chasing a religious pilgrim on the left. The man is turning back to shake a stick at the dog. The kozuka has a raised rim and the background is in a fish egg pattern ("nanako-ji").

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

Inscriptions [Signature] On kozuka: 栄乘 作 光孝; [Transliteration] Eijô Mitsutaka; [Translation] Made by Mitsutaka

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters