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
