Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Tsuka with Rabbit, Hawk, and Monkey
(Japanese Military Armor)
The kashira is decorated with a rabbit running over waves. According to folklore, female rabbits conceived by doing this on the eighteenth day of the eight month. One menuki is in the shape of a hawk and the other is shaped like in monkey hiding in a rock. This is part of a mounted set.
Inscription
Provenance
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Japan, Tokyo (Edo)
(Place of Origin)
Japan, Mito (Place of Origin)
Measurements
L: 8 3/4 in. (22.2 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.
51.1236.3B
