Squarish shibuichi tsuba with rounded corners. Two gilt grasshoppers under shakudo chrysanthemums, flowers and tips of leaves, gilt, also karukaya, gold and silver zogan. On the other side lespedeza, shakudo and gilt, growing by a stream and near which is another grasshopper as before. Signature: made by Jugyokusai Ichimi(saku)
Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Shibuichi
Shakudo
Gilt
Gold
Silver
Accession number: MAR.ARM.O.141-1912
Primary reference Number: 169091
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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