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Tsuba with design of eighteen courtier-poets

Kan'yosai Yoshitsugu (Japanese)
School: Sôten School (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
Early 19th century

Medium/Technique Main material: iron; other metals: gold and silver; decorative technique: sukashi-bori, takabori, nunome-zogan
Dimensions Overall: 7.6 x 7.3 x 0.7 cm (3 x 2 7/8 x 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Charles Goddard Weld Collection
Accession Number11.5391
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsArms and armor

Signed Kan'yosai Yoshitsugu, with a kao
管陽斎義次(花押)
Provenance1890, Charles Goddard Weld Collection; bequest to MFA, Boston, December 7, 1911.