Description
The body of this tsuba is comprised of carps. Most are swimming in a clockwise direction around the tsuba. Their scales are highlighted with gold gilding. Carps are a felicitous motif and a symbol of longevity.
Provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Signature] 光廣 肥前国矢上住; [Transliteration] hizen yagami jû/mitsuhiro; [Ttranslation] residing in Yagami, Hizen province/Mitsuhiro
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters
