Tsuba with the Chinese Immortal Gama Sennin

18th century (?) (late Edo)

6 cm 6.5 cm 0.4 cm

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This tsuba shows the Taoist immortal Gama, who is always accompanied by a frog. The frog, who only has three legs, is on the reverse side. Gama's spirit was able to leave his body to wander and once returned to find the body unfit. He put his spirit into the nearest creature,...

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