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Source Description
At the right side of this tsuba, a bird sits in a willow trunk. A stream is depicted along the bottom, with bellflowers at the left. More bellflowers are depicted on the reverse.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
31889
label
Tsuba with a Bird in a Winter Willow
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
31889
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Tsuba with a Bird in a Winter Willow
description
At the right side of this tsuba, a bird sits in a willow trunk. A stream is depicted along the bottom, with bellflowers at the left. More bellflowers are depicted on the reverse.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
n.d.
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Arms & Armor
tsubas
sword components
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
6.6
height
5.9
depth
0.4
dimensionsRaw
at bottom of nakago-ana: 2 5/8 x 2 5/16 x 1/8 in. (6.62 x 5.94 x 0.35 cm)
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
None
med
copper, gold, shakudo
creator_ids
6194
collection_ids
JMA
exhibition_ids
none
Page inventory
seq
1
type
photo
mediaId
c6a74beb3b30a14d
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no
seq
2
type
photo
mediaId
6ca08775ad009014
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no