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| Keywords: Japanese - Tsuba with Kanzan and Jittoku - Walters 51344 - Back.jpg Kanzan Ch Hanshan Hanshan and Jittoku Ch Shide Shih Te are a pair of Zen eccentrics who lived at a monastery on Mt Tendai in China during the Tang T'ang period 618-907 They spoke to each other in a nonsense language that no one else understood Kanzan is always shown holding a scroll which he is explaining to Jittoku Here Kanzan is on the right edge of the tsuba Jittoku is sleeping at the bottom Jittoku worked in the kitchen of the monastery and is usually shown with his broom The broom is depicted on the reverse of the tsuba near the bottom On the front a moon is in the upper left date silver gold copper shakudo shibuichi cm 6 36 5 83 0 42 accession number 51 344 14234 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters none place of origin Japan Walters Art Museum license Tsuba in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
