Tsuba with a Hawk and a Sparrow

1836 (late Edo)

8.6 cm 8.5 cm 0.9 cm

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The body of this tsuba is designed with a wood grain texutre made of multiple metals. At the upper right, a hawk is perched on a branch looking down. Below the hawk at the lower left is a sparrow. On the reverse, there is a branch at the upper left and a sparrow in flight at t...

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