Guard (tsuba) Decorated with a Carp

1700

Scroll

Yanagawa Naomasa

1700

Physical Qualities Copper alloy (shakudo), gold, 7.2 x 6.6 cm.

Credit Line Gift of Leroy Lipman

Object Number 1955.166.35

In high relief; nanako ground

The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Leroy Lipman

Inscribed: Signed Yanagawa Naomasa

Yanagawa Naomasa

1691–1751

Japanese, 1692-1757

Hand Guard (tsuba) Decorated with Plum Blossoms and Moon

1844–1854

Hamano Masanobu

Guard (tsuba) Decorated with the Inari Fox beneath a Half Moon

1800–1832

Unidentified, probably American

Hand Guard (tsuba) Decorated with Wasobei in the Hand of a Giant; Mt. Fuji

1869–1879

Iwama Nobuyoshi

Guard (tsuba) in the Form of a Wine Jar Decorated with a Shoji Beside Waves

1833–1866