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Source Description
This tsuba combines five of the celebrated flowers of autumn. The uppermost stalk on the right is pampas grass. Below that are maiden flowers, arrowroot and Chinese bell flowers. A tendril of bush clover crosses along the bottom on the tsuba. These flowers and grasses were regularly invoked in Japanese poetry and painting to signify autumn.
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Document identity
localId
35619
label
Tsuba with Autumn Flora
core
obj
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object
citationUrl
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4
Source metadata
id
35619
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Tsuba with Autumn Flora
description
This tsuba combines five of the celebrated flowers of autumn. The uppermost stalk on the right is pampas grass. Below that are maiden flowers, arrowroot and Chinese bell flowers. A tendril of bush clover crosses along the bottom on the tsuba. These flowers and grasses were regularly invoked in Japanese poetry and painting to signify autumn.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1824 (late Edo)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Arms & Armor
tsubas
sword components
imageCount
4
pageCount
4
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
9.2
height
8.8
depth
0.9
dimensionsRaw
H: 3 5/8 × W: 3 7/16 × D: 3/8 in. (9.2 × 8.8 × 0.9 cm)
Source extras
cul
Japanese
style
Ishiguro School
inscriptions
[Signature] 壽岳斎 石黒政美彫之; [Transliteration] Jugakusai Ishiguro Masayoshi kore o horu; [Translation] Engraved by Jugakusai Ishiguro Masayoshi; [Date] 文政七甲秋造之; [Transliteration] Bunsei shichi saru shu kore o zo; [Translation] Made in the autumn of the year of the monkey
seventh year of Bunsei (1824)
med
shakudo, gold alloy, gold, shibuichi, and copper
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4500
collection_ids
JMA
exhibition_ids
none
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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photo
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photo
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no