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| Keywords: Hakuryô - Tsuba with a Crow and a Heron on a Pine Branch in Rain - Walters 51203.jpg A crow and a heron are perched on a pine branch at the lower right side of this tsuba The heron is made of silver and the crow is made of a copper alloy The silver of the heron would have originally been white The white heron and the black crow appear as a metaphor for the pairing of opposites or ying and yang Incised lines indicate rain There is a pine branch on the reverse middle Other date century 19 Edo-Meiji copper gold and silver detail cm 6 1 5 7 0 43 accession number 51 203 33399 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Signature Hakuryu place of origin Japan Walters Art Museum license Tsuba in the Walters Art Museum Hakuryô Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
