Fuchi with Chrysanthemums

Description The front of the fuchi is dominated by a large, open chrysanthemum flower. Leaves and buds appear on the reverse. The fuchi forms a continuous composition with the koi-guchi kanagu on the hilt. This is part of a mounted set.

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

Inscriptions [Signature] 石黒是美作; [Translation] Ishiguro Koreyoshi saku

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters