Tsuba with a Sea Bream and Plum Branch

1829-1898 (late Edo-Meiji) H: 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm) Citation Source image

At the lower right of this tsuba is a sea bream ("tai") and a plum branch. The fish is being represented here as food, not as a living animal. On the reverse are sea shells.

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