Tsuba with design of boatman and Fuji

mid-19th century

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

DimensionsOverall: 6.9 x 6.4 x 0.5 cm (2 11/16 x 2 1/2 x 3/16 in.)

Credit LineCharles Goddard Weld Collection

Accession number11.5405

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ClassificationsArms and armor

Collections

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

Kaneyasu Masatoshi

mid to late 19th century (before 1890)

Togakusha Masatoshi

late 18th–early 19th centuries

Masatoshi

early to mid-19th century

Kaneyasu Masatoshi

Late 19th century

Fujiwara Yoshikatsu

1816

Shoami School

mid-late 18th century

Nara School

mid-late 18th century

Kitagawa Sôten

mid-18th century

Masatoshi

Late 18th–early 19th century

Masatoshi

Late 18th–early 19th century

Kikuzawa Teruchika

Late 18th–early 19th century

Late 18th–early 19th century (?)