Round shakudo tsuba. Nanako surfaces and edge. Lespedeza (hagi), gold and gold and silver alloy. A copper dragonfly with gold wings, a grasshopper, gold ukibon. On the other side a praying mantis, gold and silver alloy, gold wings, approaching a plant of yomara, gold shakudo. Signature: Kikuoka Mitsutomo
Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay
Length: 7.7 cm
Width: 7.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
gold and silver alloy
Silver alloy
Shakudo
Copper
Gold
Accession number: MAR.ARM.O.168-1912
Primary reference Number: 169118
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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