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Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Tsuka with Autumn Flowers
(Japanese Military Armor)
Autumn flowers, including chrysanthemums, pampas grass, Chinese bell flowers, and maiden flower, are incised in the tsuka with gold details. The kashira of chrysanthemum roundels on a basket weave background matches the accompanying fuchi by Itô Nobutoshi. This is part of a mounted set.
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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 (Place of Origin)
Measurements
L: 4 13/16 in. (12.3 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.
51.1144.3B