Tsuba with Herons in a Lotus Pond

1795-1841 (late Edo)

5.6 cm 6.3 cm 0.3 cm

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On this tsuba, two heron stand in a lotus pond. The large lotus petals are visible on the left. There is at least one other tsuba like this by Mitsuhiro and one by his father Mitsuoki. The inscription says that the design is after one by the 10th-century Chinese painter Hsu Hs...

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