Tsuba with a Chinese Landscape

ca. 1825 (Edo) 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm) Citation Source image

The scene depicted on this tsuba is reminiscent of Chinese landscape paintings. On the right, two figures walk up a mountain path. These are a scholar and his servant. They are going to a mountain hut, where the scholar will have solitude to study. Mountains and trees are show...

Artifact

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32849
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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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3
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