Tsuba with design of Minamoto no Yorimitsu (Raikô) confronting the Earth Spider (Tsuchigumo)
Gochiku Sadakatsu
(Japanese, born in 1848)
Mito School
(Japanese, 18th–20th centuries)
mid - late 19th century (before 1890)
Medium/TechniqueMain material: shibuichi; other metals: gold, silver, shakudô, shibuichi and copper; decorative technique: iroe takazôgan
DimensionsOverall: 8.8 × 8.1 × 1.3 cm (3 7/16 × 3 3/16 × 1/2 in.)
Credit LineCharles Goddard Weld Collection
Accession number11.5505
On View
Not on viewClassificationsArms and armor
Collections
ProvenanceBefore 1886, acquired in Japan by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (b. 1853 – d. 1908), Salem, MA; 1886, sold with the Fenollosa collection to Charles Goddard Weld (b. 1857 – d. 1911), Brookline, MA; 1911, bequest of Charles Goddard Weld to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 7, 1911)
Unno Moritoshi
mid to late 19th century (before 1889)
Unno Moritoshi
mid to late 19th century (before 1889)
mid to late 19th century (before 1889)
mid to late 19th century (before 1889)
Hamano Noriyuki II
Late 18th–early 19th century
Tsuba with design of Chinese scholar playing the qin, with an attendant and three supplicant figures
Hamano Naoyuki
Late 18th–early 19th century
Nagahama Yoshinobu
mid to late 19th century
early to mid-19th century