Tsuba with Peacock Feathers

Description This tsuba is designed as several overlapping peacock feathers. The eyes at the end of the feathers are decorated with copper and shakudo. 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.

Inscriptions [Signature] Nagata Naohiro (kao)

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters