Tsuba with Autumn Flowers

Description Autumns flowers fill the lower right side of this tsuba. The flowers are Chinese bell flowers and chrysanthemums. Above, a faint moon is revealed among the clouds. On the reverse, a full moon shines over maiden flowers.

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

Inscriptions [Signature] 浜野春利; [Translation] Hamano Harutoshi.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters