Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Tsuba with a Chinese Landscape
(Japanese Military Armor)
The scene depicted on this tsuba is reminiscent of Chinese landscape paintings. On the right, two figures walk up a mountain path. These are a scholar and his servant. They are going to a mountain hut, where the scholar will have solitude to study. Mountains and trees are shown along the right at top edge. At the bottom, a man in a boat is shown in a river. On the reverse are suggestions of the landscape.
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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
2 5/8 in. (6.7 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.
51.380