Tsuba with a Cricket and Dragonfly in Bush Clover

Description The right side of this tsuba is dominated by flowering bush clover. At the bottom is a cricket. The bush clovers wraps around to the reverse of the tsuba, where a dragon fly is at the upper right. A stream runs along the bottom. The artist's signature is on a gold cartouche.

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

Inscriptions [Signature] 玉川美英; [Translation] Tamagawa Yoshihide

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters