Kozuka with Plovers and Waves

Description The right side of this horizontally oriented composition ends with the curve of a wave that matches the edge of the kozuka. At the left, two plovers fly above the water. Between them is a thin crescent moon. The kozuka is signed on the reverse.

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

Inscriptions [Signature] 中央山　喬林; [Translation] Chûôsan Kyôrin

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters