Tsuka with a Tree Branch and Birds

Description The tsuka is designed to look like the branch of a tree. One menuki is in the shape of a hawk. The other menuki is two sparrows. The kashira is shaped like the ivy covered roof of a hut. This is part of a mounted set.

Provenance William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions none

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters