Tsuba Referring to the Noh Play ""Kayoi Komachi""

1866 (Edo) 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm) Citation Source image

At the lower right of the tsuba, a dog sits among reeds with a skull and a skeleton. A full moon breaks through clouds at the upper right. This scene is a traditional reference to the noh play "Kayoi Komachi" (The Nightly Courting of Komachi). Ono no Komachi was a 9th-century...

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