Guard (tsuba) Decorated with Monkeys

18th Century

Scroll

Hamano Masayuki

18th Century

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

Credit Line Gift of Leroy Lipman

Object Number 1955.166.12

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

Inscribed: Signed Otsuryuken Miboku

Hamano Masayuki

Japanese, 1696-1769

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