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Source Description
Mt. Fuji is executed in silver, with clouds at the lower right. Mt. Fuji is the most sacred mountain in Japan. It has long been an important site for pilgrimage and is still a popular tourist destination. On the reverse is a poem by the Japanese Confusian scholar Ogyû Sorai (1666-1728).
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Document identity
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15688
label
Kozuka with Mt. Fuji
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obj
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object
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4
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15688
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object
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normalized
title
Kozuka with Mt. Fuji
description
Mt. Fuji is executed in silver, with clouds at the lower right. Mt. Fuji is the most sacred mountain in Japan. It has long been an important site for pilgrimage and is still a popular tourist destination. On the reverse is a poem by the Japanese Confusian scholar Ogyû Sorai (1666-1728).
provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1840 (Edo)
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CC0
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en
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Arms & Armor
kozuka
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4
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4
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import
dimensionsRaw
L: 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm)
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cul
Japanese
inscriptions
[Date] 天保庚子泰簇; [Transliteration] Tenpo kanoene taisô; [Translation] January 1840; [Signature] 春明法眼; [Translation] Haruaki Hôgen (kao)
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shakudo, silver
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4557
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JMA
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170
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