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This tsuba shows a carp swimming through a stream among water milfoil. The carp's head is at the lower right, with its body and tail extending up the right side. Carps are considered a felicitous motif. On the reverse are rocks, a stream and milfoil.

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2
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0
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photo
Media ID
39d1b39229419721
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4032
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obj
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object
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    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
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Document source extras 
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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 安親; [Translation] Yasuchika",
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