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Source Description
Flying through the sky at the top of this tsuba is a dragon. At the bottom, a man with a basket, a kettle and a sickle runs through rain at the water's edge. Rain is depicted through incised lines. On the reverse, rain is shown at the upper left with a hint of landscape at the bottom. This may be a reference to a legendary story.
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Document identity
localId
19696
label
Tsuba with a Tea-leaf Harvester Caught in a Rainstorm
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
19696
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Tsuba with a Tea-leaf Harvester Caught in a Rainstorm
description
Flying through the sky at the top of this tsuba is a dragon. At the bottom, a man with a basket, a kettle and a sickle runs through rain at the water's edge. Rain is depicted through incised lines. On the reverse, rain is shown at the upper left with a hint of landscape at the bottom. This may be a reference to a legendary story.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
n.d.
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Arms & Armor
tsubas
sword components
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
8.3
height
7.7
depth
0.4
dimensionsRaw
3 1/4 x 3 x 3/16 in. (8.28 x 7.68 x 0.4 cm)
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
none
med
iron, copper, gold, shakudo, gilt
creator_ids
6194
collection_ids
JMA
exhibition_ids
none
Page inventory
seq
1
type
photo
mediaId
f3d3beac604ee72b
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no
seq
2
type
photo
mediaId
13565ac05aad74c2
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no