Tsuba with Autumn Grasses and Insects

Description This tsuba is dominated by pampas grass, a traditional indication of autumn. At the lower right and the bottom are chrysanthemum flowers. A moth is at the upper right. A similar scene of pampas is depicted on the reverse with chrysanthemums at the bottom.

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

Inscriptions [Signature] Iwamoto Konkan

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters