Tsuba with Urashima Taro Leaving the Palace of the Dragon King

1870-1896 (late Edo-Meiji)

6.7 cm 8 cm 0.4 cm

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This tsuba depicts a scene from the story of Urashima. Urashima was a fisherman who accidentally caught a tortoise in his net. He freed the tortoise and threw it back in the sea. Later, a beautiful woman appeared to him on the water and took him to the underwater palace of her...

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