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| Keywords: Tamagawa Yoshiharu - Tsuba with an Immortal with His Tiger - Walters 51181 - Mark.jpg On the right side of this tsuba is a Chinese immortal standing with a tiger It is either Bukan Ch Fung Gan who would ride his tiger around his monastery to shock others or the Taoist sage Koreijin Ch Gu Lingren who is accompanied by his white tiger Tigers are said to turn white when they reach the age of five hundred years The tiger demonstrates the power of sage's wisdom because he was able to tame such a strong animal On the left is a bamboo grove middle Other date century 19 late Edo-Meiji silver cm 6 9 6 6 0 42 accession number 51 181 2352 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Signature Yoshiharu saku; Translation Made by Yoshiharu place of origin Edo present-day Tokyo Japan Walters Art Museum license Tsuba in the Walters Art Museum Tamagawa Yoshiharu Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
