Tsuba with design of snake

Seki Yoshinori (Japanese, 1799–1870)

mid-19th century

Medium/TechniqueMain material: brass; other metals: gold and shakudo; copper sekigane; decorative technique: nikubori, zôgan

Credit LineCharles Goddard Weld Collection

Accession number11.5492

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsArms and armor

Collections

Provenance1890, Charles Goddard Weld Collection; bequest to MFA, Boston, December 7, 1911.

Seki Yoshinori

Late 19th century

Ishiguro Masanaga

early to mid-19th century

Kitagawa Sôten

18th century

Seki Yoshinori

mid-19th century

Seki Yoshinori

Late 19th century

Heianjo School

mid-late 17th century

Heianjo School

mid-late 17th century

Masaharu

Late 18th–early 19th century

Gotô Tsunemasa

early to mid-19th century

Rakuju

early to mid-19th century

Oda Naoka

1762

Kikuzawa Teruchika

Late 18th–early 19th century