Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Tsuba with Fish
(Japanese Military Armor)
Nine different forms of fish and sea creatures are illustrated on this tsuba. All are regularly consumed as part of the Japanese diet. On the front, a spiny lobster is at the lower right. Proceeding around in a clockwise direction are a flounder, a puffer fish, a second flounder, and a sea bream. On the reverse are a snapper, an octopus, an eel, and a flounder.
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Provenance
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Japan, Tokyo (Edo) (Place of Origin)
Measurements
3 5/16 x 3 x 3/16 in. (8.4 x 7.69 x 0.48 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
51.264