Large round iron tsuba. Surface muji crossed by rain marks. A large toro fills the greater part of the tsuba and an old man, copper, wearing a head-cover of rice straw, gilt, (for the rain) is about to feed the toro with some oil from a yakan, brass. On the other side is a cryptomeria in the rain. signature: Toyeiken Yoshinaga
Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay
Width: 9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Iron
Gilt
Copper
Brass (alloy)
Accession number: MAR.ARM.O.143-1912
Primary reference Number: 169093
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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