Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Tsuba with a Carp
(Japanese Military Armor)
This tsuba shows a carp swimming through a stream among water milfoil. The carp's head is at the lower right, with its body and tail extending up the right side. Carps are considered a felicitous motif. On the reverse are rocks, a stream and milfoil.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Japan, Yamagata, Shonai
(Place of Origin)
Japan, Tokyo (Edo) (Place of Origin)
Measurements
2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
51.291