Tsuka with Clouds and Chinese Immortals
Description
English: The kashira is decorated with the same stylized clouds as the matching tsuba and fuchi. Each menuki is in the shape of a standing Chinese figure. One holds a book and the other bears a halberd. These are probably Chinese immortals. This is part of a mounted set.
Date between 1868 and 1912 (?) (Meiji)
Medium sentoku, ray skin, silk cord
Dimensions Length: 11.4 cm (4.5 in).
Current location
Walters Art Museum Link back to Institution infobox template wikidata:Q210081
Accession number 51.1188.3b
Place of creation Japan
Object history
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters