Guard (Tsuba) Decorated with the ‘Story of a Tongue-cut Sparrow’

1828

Scroll

Iwama Masayoshi

1828

Physical Qualities Copper alloy, shibuichi, with gold and silver inlay, 8 x 7.4 cm.

Credit Line Gift of Leroy Lipman

Object Number 1955.166.4

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

Iwama Masayoshi

1763–1836

Japanese, 1764-1837

Sword Guard Decorated with Seated Woman and Cut Irises

1800–1899

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