Tsuba with a Hanging Bouquet (""Kusudama"")
On the right of this tsuba is a flower cluster, also called a medicine ball (kusadama). These balls are used as part of the traditional decoration for the Boy's Festival on May 5th. Brocade bags of fragrant herbs, such as musk and cloves, were bound together with flowers and s...
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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