Kozuka with a Cricket and a Fan

ca. 1850 (late Edo-Meiji) 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm) (l.) Citation Source image

A large cricket is on the right of the composition. To the left is a fan. The characters on the fan are the start of a famous poem that uses all the sounds in the Japanese syllabary. The artist signed the kozuka on the reverse.

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