Tsuba with design of the Bunbuku Chagama story

mid-19th century

Medium/TechniqueMain material: iron; other metals: gold, silver, shakudo, copper and shibuichi; decorative technique: takabori, zogan

DimensionsOverall: 7 x 6.1 x 0.3 cm (2 3/4 x 2 3/8 x 1/8 in.)

Credit LineCharles Goddard Weld Collection

Accession number11.5399

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ClassificationsArms and armor

Collections

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

Morikawa Toshikage

mid-19th century

Morikawa Toshikage

1869

Morikawa Masakage

mid-19th century

Tanaka Kiyotoshi

early to mid-19th century

Onuki Masaharu

mid-19th century

Iwama Masayoshi

Early 19th century

Hamano Shôzui

mid to late 19th century (before 1890)

Shoami School

Late 18th–early 19th century

Seishi

mid-19th century

Kanô Natsuo

mid to late 19th century (before 1890)

Nara School

mid-late 18th century

Chizuka Hisanori

early to mid-19th century