Tsuba with Autumn Leaves

Description Surrounding the central opening of this tsuba is an openwork design of autumn leaves. At the upper right is a maple leaf. Two chestnuts leaves fill the lower right and the bottom edge of the tsuba. A pine cone and a gingko leaf complete the motif.

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

Inscriptions [Transliteration] bushû jû/masakatsu saku; [Translation] Made by Maskatsu, residing in Bushû

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters