Tsuba with Squirrels in a Grape Vine

ca. 1845 (late Edo)

6.7 cm 7 cm 0.6 cm

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Grape vines filled with fruit surround the openings on this tsuba. Three squirrels are shown amongst the vine. One is at the top on the front side. A second is below the secondary opening on the left. The third is on the reverse just above the secondary opening on the left.

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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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