Tsuba with Shôki the Demon Queller Chasing Demons

1819-1880 (late Edo-Meiji)

6.8 cm 7.9 cm 0.5 cm

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On a cloud at the upper right stands the demon queller Shôki. He is dressed in Chinese-style armor. The cloud continues below the central opening of the tsuba to where a demon runs away from Shôki. This motif continues on the reverse of the tsuba where two more demons are show...

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