Guard (Tsuba) Decorated with Rakan and the Devil

1700

Scroll

Hamano Masayuki

1700

Physical Qualities Copper alloy, gold, 8.7 x 7.9 cm.

Credit Line Gift of Leroy Lipman

Object Number 1955.166.13

The long-haired disciple holds a bell in his right hand and vajra, symbolizing respectively wisdom and compassion.

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