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| Keywords: Shimizu Tomohisa - Tsuba with Wu Daozi's Dragon Painting Coming to Life - Walters 51165.jpg This tsuba illustrates a story about the 8th-century Chinese painter Wu Daozi Tao-tzu who was said to have painted a picture of a dragon so realistic that it came to life The tsuba shows the painter in the lower right surrounded by brushes and other tools The dragon looms over the upper left of the tsuba On the reverse is a pine tree and bamboo Both secondary holes have been plugged and the background incising continues across the plugs ca 1800 late Edo sentoku gold copper cm 7 15 6 88 0 38 accession number 51 165 5413 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Signature Shojuken/Tomohisa place of origin Mito Japan Walters Art Museum license Tsuba in the Walters Art Museum Shimizu Tomohisa Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
