Tsuba with a Kuanyu Preparing to Throw a Spear

1773-1829 (late Edo)

6.7 cm 7.2 cm 0.4 cm

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The mounted figure along the right edge of this tsuba is 2nd century Chinese general Kanyu (Ch. Guan Yu [Kuan Yu). Stories of his activities during the Three Kingdoms period are told in the 14th century novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms." Kuanyu is about to plunge his spear...

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