Tsuba with Wu Daozi's Dragon Painting Coming to Life

ca. 1800 (late Edo)

6.9 cm 7.2 cm 0.4 cm

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This tsuba illustrates a story about the 8th-century Chinese painter Wu Daozi [Tao-tzu], who was said to have painted a picture of a dragon so realistic that it came to life. The tsuba shows the painter in the lower right surrounded by brushes and other tools. The dragon looms...

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5413
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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संस्कृति
Japanese
माध्यम
sentoku, gold, copper

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