Keywords: Japanese - Tsuka with Dragonflies and Swallows - Walters 5112743b - Back.jpg The menuki are dragonflies with shakudo bodies and gold wings Two swallows on a branch and one in flight decorate the kashira This is part of a mounted set century 19 Edo-Meiji silver gold shakudo ray skin silk cord cm 9 4 accession number 51 1274 3b 79539 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 Tsuka Menuki Kashira tsuka Dragonflies and damselflies in art Swallows in art ShakudÅ Gold objects |