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| Keywords: Nakamura Chikayori - Tsuba with the Rabbit in the Moon - Walters 51206 - Back.jpg This tsuba is a depiction of the sky filled with clouds At the upper left the moon appears with the depiction of a rabbit pounding rice for sweet rice cakes This is the figure that the Japanese see in the moon This tradition may have developed in part because the word for rice cake mochi can also mean full moon mid-late 19th century Edo-Meiji shibuichi silver and gold cm 7 2 accession number 51 206 11621 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Transcription Kii no kuni/Nakamura Chikayori kao ; Translation Kii province/Nakamura Chikayori place of origin Kii Japan Walters Art Museum license Tosogu Japanese sword fittings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Nakamura Chikayori | ||||
