Kozuka with a Kingfisher on Reeds

Description This kozuka is unusual because it is made of wood and elaborately polychromed. At the lower left, stylized lines indicate water. Just above the water is a kingfisher perched on reeds. The reeds extend through the right side of the composition.

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

Inscriptions none

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters