Kogai with Autumn Flowers

Description This split kogai is decorated with a lady bug crawling through morning glories. This is part of a mounted set in which all pieces are decorated with autumn flowers and signed by Ishiguro Masatsune.

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

Inscriptions [Signature] 石黒政常; [Translation] Ishiguro Masatsune (kao)

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters