Tsuba with Autumn Grasses with Spider and Butterflies

Description Provenance Inscription Credit

Description On the front of this tsuba are various autumn flowers, including chrysanthemums, maiden flower, arrowroot, and pampas grass. On the reverse is a spider in a web in the upper left. Butterflies are on the edge at the right and top.

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

Inscriptions [Signature] Hashimoto/Isshi (kao)

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters

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Creator

Hashimoto Isshi I (Japanese, 1820-1896) (Artist)

Period

1850-1871 (late Edo-Meiji)

Medium

shibuichi, gilt
(Arms & Armor)

Accession Number

51.401

Measurements

H: 1 15/16 in. (5 cm)

Geographies

Edo (present-day Tokyo, Japan) (?) (Place of Origin)
Kyoto, Japan (?) (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View