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Source Description
At the right of the tsuba, temple buildings rise from the shore near pine trees. Towards the back and above the hole for the kogai stands a pagoda. Waves are in the foreground at the bottom. On the reverse, plovers fly over waves. This is part of a mounted set.
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Document identity
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35444
label
Tsuba with Temple Landscape
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35444
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title
Tsuba with Temple Landscape
description
At the right of the tsuba, temple buildings rise from the shore near pine trees. Towards the back and above the hole for the kogai stands a pagoda. Waves are in the foreground at the bottom. On the reverse, plovers fly over waves. This is part of a mounted set.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1866 (late Edo)
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CC0
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en
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Arms & Armor
tsubas
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import
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H: 2 5/16 in. (5.8 cm)
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Japanese
inscriptions
[Date] 慶應丙寅年冬; [Transliteration]Keiô hinoe tora nen fuyu; [Translation] Winter of 1866
year of the tiger; [Signature] 一匠中川勝實; [Translation] Isshô Nakagawa Katsuzane (kao)
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silver, gold
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5344
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none
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