MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | Japanese_-_Tsuba_with_Nightingales_and_an_Owl_-_Walters_51243.jpg (1800x1751) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: Japanese - Tsuba with Nightingales and an Owl - Walters 51243.jpg At the upper left of this tsuba is a new moon On the right an owl perches on the branch of a flowering plum tree A nightingale on the lower left flies under the branch On the reverse one bird is at the lower right Bamboo and a branch are on the lower left The nightingale and the plum tree may be a reference to a poem by Hakurakuten Ch Bai Juyi Po Chü-i 776-846 date iron silver gold copper cm 6 95 6 74 0 45 accession number 51 243 7437 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters none place of origin Japan Walters Art Museum license Tsuba in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
