Tsuba with a Crow and a Heron on a Pine Branch in Rain

mid 19th century (Edo-Meiji)

5.7 cm 6.1 cm 0.4 cm

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A crow and a heron are perched on a pine branch at the lower right side of this tsuba. The heron is made of silver, and the crow is made of a copper alloy. The silver of the heron would have originally been white. The white heron and the black crow appear as a metaphor for the...

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