Tsuba with design of eighteen courtier-poets
Kan'yosai Yoshitsugu
(Japanese)
Sôten School
(Japanese)
Early 19th century
Medium/TechniqueMain material: iron; other metals: gold and silver; decorative technique: sukashi-bori, takabori, nunome-zogan
DimensionsOverall: 8.1 x 7.7 x 0.5 cm (3 3/16 x 3 1/16 x 3/16 in.)
Credit LineCharles Goddard Weld Collection
Accession number11.5390
On View
Not on viewClassificationsArms and armor
Collections
Provenance1890, Charles Goddard Weld Collection; bequest to MFA, Boston, December 7, 1911.
Early 19th century
18th century
18th century (?)
18th century
late 17th–early 18th century
mid-late 18th century
early to mid-19th century
Late 16th–mid-17th century
Late 16th–early 17th century
Late 18th–early 19th century
early to mid-19th century
Early 19th century