Guard (tsuba) Decorated with a Carp

18th Century

Scroll

Yanagawa Naomasa

18th Century

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

Credit Line Gift of Leroy Lipman

Object Number 1955.166.35

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

Inscribed: Signed Yanagawa Naomasa

Yanagawa Naomasa

Japanese, 1692-1757

Hand Guard (tsuba) Decorated with Plum Blossoms and Moon

c. 1850

Hamano Masanobu

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

early 19th century

Unidentified, probably American

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

c. 1875

Iwama Nobuyoshi

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

Mid-19th century