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Sword hilt fitting (fuchi)

Takeshiba Toshiteru (Japanese, active Edo period)

mid-19th century

Object PlaceJapan

Medium/TechniqueCopper-gold alloy (shakudô) with autumn grasses and insects in high relief and iroe, finished with nanako

Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession number11.11292d

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsArms and armor

Collections

Asia

InscriptionsNaniwa kinjô no Tan'yû no zu o moshi kore o kaku ; Takeshiba Toshiteru koku (Drew this reproducing a painting by Tan'yû in Osaka castle ; Carved by Takeshiba Toshiteru) 浪速金城模探幽図之畫竹芝寿輝刻ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.