Tsuba with the Seven Gods of Fortune

1669-1712 (early Edo)

8.5 cm 8.8 cm 0.5 cm

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The Seven Gods of Good Fortune ("Shichifukujin") are a Japanese folk tradition that emerged from Buddhist, Taoist, and Shinto beliefs. On the front, Daikoku, the god of wealth, appears that the upper right with bales of rice. Next to him is Jurôjin, the god of wisdom (or longe...

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