Kozuka with Dancers

Description A circle of eleven people surround a dancer in the middle. At the left is a figure with a drum. Two more figures dance on the right. The dancers are in comic dress. The background is in a fish egg pattern ("nanako-ji"). This is only the decorative plate of the kozuka.

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

Inscriptions none

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters