Description
A spiny lobster is depicted along with milfoil. The background is worked in fish egg pattern ("nanako-ji") and the kozuka has a raised rim.
Provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Signature] On kozuka: 柳川直春; [Translation] Yanagawa
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters