Keywords: Kano Natsuo - Tsuba with a Carp - Walters 51248 - Mark A.jpg A carp is depicted swimming along the lower right edge of this tsuba Carps are felicitous symbols and are associated with some of the Shinto gods The reverse of the tsuba shows a lily pond between 1848 1898 late Edo-Meiji iron gold silver cm 7 9 7 2 0 54 accession number 51 248 8466 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Signature Natsuo kao place of origin Edo present-day Tokyo Japan Walters Art Museum license Tsuba in the Walters Art Museum Kano Natsuo Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review |