Tsuka with Elephant Head
This unusual tsuka is shaped like an elephant's head, with the trunk extended. Elephants are not native to Japan, but during the 18th century at least two were brought to the country as gifts by foreign traders.
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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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