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Guard (tsuba) with the Warrior, Minomoto-Yoshiie on Horseback - Image 1
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Iwama Nobuyoshi

Guard (tsuba) with the Warrior, Minomoto-Yoshiie on Horseback

c. 1860-1865

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Guard (tsuba) with the Warrior, Minomoto-Yoshiie on Horseback

Iwama Nobuyoshi

Guard (tsuba) with the Warrior, Minomoto-Yoshiie on Horseback

Iwama Nobuyoshi

Guard (tsuba) with the Warrior, Minomoto-Yoshiie on Horseback

c. 1860-1865

Physical Qualities Copper alloy (shibuichi), gold, silver, 8.8 x 8.3 cm.
Credit Line Gift of Leroy Lipman
Object Number 1955.166.8
If falling cherry blossoms symbolized a warrior killed early in life, these early blooms surely suggest vigor and the promise of youth. The notched cherry blossom, quintessentially Japanese and not included in China’s pervasive decorative vocabulary, came to represent ephemerality.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Leroy Lipman, Baltimore
Frances Klapthor, BMA, "The Poetic Imagery of Japanese Art," February 22-August 8, 2010. (Levy Rotation)

Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7- May 8, 2016.

Inscribed: Signed: shuno hogen nobuyoshi

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Iwama Nobuyoshi

Japanese, 1807-1878

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