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Hamano Masanobu

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

1800-1832

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Hamano Masanobu

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

1800-1832

Physical Qualities Shibuichi, gold, silver, copper, 6.3 x 5.6 cm.
Credit Line Gift of Leroy Lipman
Object Number 1955.166.14
The Inari fox, the benevolent messenger of the kami (nature spirit) of rice and harvests, is shown here at 1,000 years old, after it has become golden in color and tremendously powerful.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Leroy Lipman
New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century

The Way of Nature: Art from Japan, China, and Korea
Mohiro Ogawa and Kazutoshi Harada, "Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868," NY: Metropolitan Museum,

Inscribed: Signed: gyonen rokujuyon otsuryuken miboku

Artist

Hamano Masanobu

1772–1845

Japanese, born 1773-c. 1846
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