Keywords: Japanese - Tsuka with Autumn Flowers, Plum Blossoms and Nightingale - Walters 5112483B.jpg The kashira depicts a nightingale on a flowering plum tree branch with its beak open in song The subject is a reference to a poem by the Chinese poet Hakurakuten Ch Bai Juyi Po Chü-i 772-847 In the poem the owner of a plum tree refuses to cut off a flowering branch because it will leave the nightingale without a place to perch Autumn flowers are incised on the body of the tsuka This is part of a mounted set century 19 Edo-Meiji cm 11 2 accession number 51 1248 3B 79639 William T / Henry Walters Collection Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T or Henry Walters none place of origin Japan Walters Art Museum license Tsuka in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review |