Tsuba with Fish, Shells and Mask

ca. 1800-1850 (late Edo)

7.3 cm 7.8 cm 0.4 cm

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This tsuba shows four separate motifs by four individual artists. Each artist signed his own name on a small plaque near the motif he made. This is a typical style for the Arikawa family from Mito. On the front are a blow fish (signed by Kiyomasa), a mask used in comedic perfo...

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