Tsuba with an Immortal with His Tiger

mid 19th century (late Edo-Meiji)

6.6 cm 6.9 cm 0.4 cm

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On the right side of this tsuba is a Chinese immortal standing with a tiger. It is either Bukan (Ch. Fung Gan), who would ride his tiger around his monastery to shock others or the Taoist sage Koreijin (Ch. Gu Lingren), who is accompanied by his white tiger. Tigers are said to...

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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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