Description
This tsuba is decorated with three of the celebrated autumn grasses. On the front are arrowroot and pampas grass. On the reverse is mist flower. This is part of a mounted set.
Provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Date] 明治四辛未仲夏; [Transliteration] Meiji yon kanoto hitsuji chûka; [Translation] Meiji 4 (1871), year of the sheep, mid summer; [Signature] 龍青眠 壽矩; [Translation] Ryûseimin Toshinori (kao)
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters
