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Kikuoka Mitsuyuki

Guard (Tsuba) Decorated with the Bust of a Nio Temple Guardian

1700

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Kikuoka Mitsuyuki

Guard (Tsuba) Decorated with the Bust of a Nio Temple Guardian

1700

Physical Qualities Copper, shakudo, and gold, 9.6 x 9.1 cm.
Credit Line Gift of Leroy Lipman
Object Number 1955.166.27
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Leroy Lipman

Inscribed: Signed Kikuoka Mitsuyuki

Artist

Kikuoka Mitsuyuki

1749–1799

Japanese, 1750-1800
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