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Source Description
A basket is suspended on a rope from a bamboo rod at the top of the composition. Several ferns stick out from the basket. A sparrow perches on the rope. The artist signed the kozuka on the reverse.
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Document identity
localId
14713
label
Kozuka with a Sparrow and a Basket
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obj
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object
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3
Source metadata
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14713
sourceUrl
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object
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normalized
title
Kozuka with a Sparrow and a Basket
description
A basket is suspended on a rope from a bamboo rod at the top of the composition. Several ferns stick out from the basket. A sparrow perches on the rope. The artist signed the kozuka on the reverse.
provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
18th-19th century (Edo)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Arms & Armor
kozuka
sword components
handles
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3
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3
source
import
dimensionsRaw
3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm) (l.)
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
[Signature] On kozuka: 蜂屋政壽; [Translation] Hachiya Masatoshi
med
shibuichi, gold, copper
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16329
collection_ids
JMA
exhibition_ids
none
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photo
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photo
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