Kozuka with Cranes and Reeds

Description Two cranes are shown in flight. Below them are reeds on a river bank. The decoration at the end of the kozuka forms the bank. The artist signed the kozuka on the reverse.

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

Inscriptions [Signature] 篤興; [Translation] Tokuoki

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters