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Source Description
There are four autumn flowers on the front of this tsuba; pampas grass, bush clover, Chinese bell flowers, and patrinia. On the back are chrysanthemums. All of these plants appear regularly in visual art and poetry to indicate autumn.
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Document identity
localId
9439
label
Tsuba with Autumn Flowers
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
9439
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Tsuba with Autumn Flowers
description
There are four autumn flowers on the front of this tsuba; pampas grass, bush clover, Chinese bell flowers, and patrinia. On the back are chrysanthemums. All of these plants appear regularly in visual art and poetry to indicate autumn.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
n.d.
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Arms & Armor
tsubas
sword components
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
7.3
height
6.8
depth
0.4
dimensionsRaw
2 7/8 x 2 11/16 x 3/16 in. (7.34 x 6.77 x 0.42 cm)
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
none
med
shakudo, gold, copper
creator_ids
6194
collection_ids
JMA
exhibition_ids
none
Page inventory
seq
1
type
photo
mediaId
ef55fda1a2772fc3
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no
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no
seq
2
type
photo
mediaId
6293cda6853d953c
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no