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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

1854

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Iwama Nobuyoshi

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

1854

Physical Qualities Copper alloy (shibuichi), gold, silver, 8.8 x 8.3 cm.
Credit Line Gift of Leroy Lipman
Object Number 1955.166.8
Face decorated with the warrior, Minamoto-Yoshiie, in hunting attire on horseback; the reverse with a flowering cherry tree.
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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