Kozuka with Blossoming Plums and a Hut

Description In the right foreground, blooming branches of plum obscure the roof of a hut. An open gate is along the edge in the middle of the composition. Stylized clouds appear at the upper right and lower left. A long poem is inscribed on the reverse along with the artist's signature.

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

Inscriptions [Poem] Unread; [Signature] 後藤法橋東一乗; [Translation] Gotô Hokkyô Higashi Ichijô

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters