Squarish iron tsuba, deeply hammered surface. A serpent, sentokudo, wriggles about on both surfaces, pursuing a frog, ukibon, which in turn is after a snail, shibuichi, on the other side. The scene corresponds with Japanese idea - the serpent is stronger than the fog, the frog than the snail and the snail than the serpent. For the serpent always shirks contact with the snail. In front of the frog is a leaf of the maiden-hair tree, copper. Signature: Ichiyosai
Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay
Height: 8.5 cm
Width: 8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Accession number: MAR.ARM.O.136-1912
Primary reference Number: 169086
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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