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| Keywords: Iwama Masayoshi - Tsuba with Monkeys - Walters 51297.jpg On the right side of this tsuba are four monkeys grooming each other An adult holds a young monkey at the rear of the grouping In the front another young monkey hangs upside down from the arm of the second adult The reverse shows an overhanging rock on the right with a stream along the bottom As in the west monkeys were often anthropomorphized in Japanese legends and art between 1764 1837 Edo copper alloy shibuichi silver shakudo gold cm 7 84 7 41 0 48 accession number 51 297 26774 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Signature Masayoshi saku place of origin Edo present-day Tokyo Japan Walters Art Museum license Tsuba in the Walters Art Museum Iwama Masayoshi Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Reliefs of monkeys on Japanese sword fittings | ||||
