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| Keywords: Otsuki Mitsuhiro - Tsuba with Roundels Depicting Dragons - Walters 51107.jpg This tsuba is decorated with roundels depicting dragons The front contains two partial roundels while the back has one full and two partial roundels The roundels are Chinese in styling and reminiscent of Chinese bureaucratic rank badges The artist seal is prominent on the front The metal of the tsuba has an unusual surface with an appearance similar to wood grain One of the secondary holes has been plugged between 1795 1841 Meiji sentoku gold copper cm 7 7 7 18 0 42 accession number 51 107 10429 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Seal Ôtsuki/Mitsuhiro Inscription Ôju Yasuchika no zu/chosen; Translation Engraved by special request after a design by Yasuchika place of origin Kyoto Japan Walters Art Museum license Tsuba in the Walters Art Museum Otsuki Mitsuhiro Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
