Tsuba with Blossoming Magnolia with Sparrows

1855 (late Edo)

7.7 cm 8.1 cm 0.5 cm

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A magnolia, associated with spring, blooms on the right hand side of this tsuba. Two sparrows appear. One is in flight at the lower left and one is perched in the magnolia tree. On the reverse, another magnolia tree is shown at the left with a sparrow flying above it. A stream...

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