Description
Two orchids and leaves are tied to a spade. The background is a fish egg pattern ("nanakoji") with a raised rim. 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] 平安城 今井永武; [Translation] Heianjô Imai Nagatake; [Number] On sticker edged with a blue trellis pattern: 378
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters