Tsuba with Sacred Jewels (""Tama"")

1865 (Edo-Meiji)

6.3 cm 6.8 cm 0.4 cm

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This tsuba has three small sacred jewels on the right and a larger one on the left that is incorporated into the opening for the utility knife. At the bottom of the opening is a fifth small jewel. These jewels are Buddhist symbols of spiritual, not material, wealth.

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