Tsuba with the Dragon King's Gifts to Hidesato

n.d.

7.3 cm 7.9 cm 0.4 cm

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This tsuba shows attendants of the Dragon King carrying gifts of gratitude to Fujiwara no Hidesato. The Dragon King asked Hidesato to kill the giant centipede of Mount Mikami, who was poisoning the Dragon King's underwater kingdom. Hidesato shot the centipede with an arrow, ki...

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24604
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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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