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Source Description
The kashira depicts a nightingale on a flowering plum tree branch with its beak open in song. The subject is a reference to a poem by the Chinese poet Hakurakuten (Ch. Bai Juyi [Po Chü-i]) (772-847). In the poem, the owner of a plum tree refuses to cut off a flowering branch because it will leave the nightingale without a place to perch. Autumn flowers are incised on the body of the tsuka. This is part of a mounted set.
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Document identity
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79639
label
Tsuka with Autumn Flowers, Plum Blossoms and Nightingale
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Source metadata
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79639
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object
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normalized
title
Tsuka with Autumn Flowers, Plum Blossoms and Nightingale
description
The kashira depicts a nightingale on a flowering plum tree branch with its beak open in song. The subject is a reference to a poem by the Chinese poet Hakurakuten (Ch. Bai Juyi [Po Chü-i]) (772-847). In the poem, the owner of a plum tree refuses to cut off a flowering branch because it will leave the nightingale without a place to perch. Autumn flowers are incised on the body of the tsuka. This is part of a mounted set.
provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
19th century (Edo-Meiji)
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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Arms & Armor
tsuka
kashira
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3
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3
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import
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L: 4 7/16 in. (11.2 cm)
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Japanese
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none
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6194
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JMA
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none
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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no
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2
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photo
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photo
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