Guard (tsuba) Decorated with Monkeys

1700

Scroll

Hamano Masayuki

1700

Physical Qualities Copper alloy, gold, 8.4 cm. diam.

Credit Line Gift of Leroy Lipman

Object Number 1955.166.12

Monkeys

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

Inscribed: Signed Otsuryuken Miboku

Hamano Masayuki

Japanese, 1696-1769

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1844

Hamano Masanobu

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

1800

Unidentified, probably American

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1869

Iwama Nobuyoshi

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1833