Tsuba with Enshi (Ch. Yen Tzu), One of the Twenty Four Paragons of Filial Piety

1667-1736 (Edo)

6.7 cm 7.2 cm 0.4 cm

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This tsuba depicts Enshi (Ch. Yen Tzu), one of the twenty four paragons of filial piety from the Chinese Zhou [Chou] Dynasty (1122-255 BC). Enshi's parents had a eye ailment that could only be cured by deer's milk. His family was too poor to buy the expensive milk, so Enshi di...

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