Tsuba with Benkei at the Barrier Gate, from the Play ""The Subscription List""

ca.1825 (late Edo)

7.6 cm 8.2 cm 0.4 cm

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This tsuba possibly shows a scene from the kabuki play "The Subscription List," in which the loyal retainer Benkei saves his master Yoshitsune from capture by agents of Yoshitsune's older brother Yoritomo. Yoshitsune is traveling north from Kyoto with Benkei and four other sol...

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