Tsuba with Insects on Old Weathered Wood

Description The body of this tsuba is craved in the form of insect eaten wood. On the front, a cicada is shown at the upper left, a spider is at the lower left, and a wasp is at the bottom right. A dung beetle is on the reverse.

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

Inscriptions none

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters