Keywords: Japanese - Tsuka with Phoenixes - Walters 5111982B.jpg Each menuki is in the shape of a gold hô-ô which is a mythical bird similar to the phoenix On the kashira a hô-ô is shown in flight over a blossoming cherry tree This is part of a mounted set 2nd half Other date century 19 late Edo-Meiji black lacquer silver shakudo gold ray skin cm 11 1 accession number 51 1198 2B 79450 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters none place of origin Edo present-day Tokyo Japan Walters Art Museum license Tsuka in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Morikawa Toshikage |