Tsuba with design of ho-o birds and paulownia

Early 19th century

Medium/TechniqueMain material: iron; other metals: silver sekigane; decorative technique: takabori

DimensionsOverall: 7.4 x 7 x 0.5 cm (2 15/16 x 2 3/4 x 3/16 in.)

Credit LineHenry Adams Collection—Gift of the heirs of Henry Adams

Accession number19.273

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ClassificationsArms and armor

Collections

ProvenanceLent by Henry Adams, April 2, 1909.

Hashimoto Seisei

Early 19th century

Honjô Yoshitane

Early 19th century

Iwamoto Kanri

Early 19th century

Shoami Tadatsugu

Late 17th century

Tanaka Kiyotoshi

early to mid-19th century

Nara School

early to mid-19th century

Kikuzawa Teruchika

Late 18th–early 19th century

Hamano Shôzui

mid-late 18th century (?)

Late 18th century (?)

Late 18th–early 19th century (?)

Nara School

early to mid-18th century

Nara School

mid-late 18th century