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

1695–1768

Japanese, 1696-1769

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