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| Keywords: Japanese - Tsuka with Rabbit, Hawk, and Monkey - Walters 5112363B - Back.jpg The kashira is decorated with a rabbit running over waves According to folklore female rabbits conceived by doing this on the eighteenth day of the eight month One menuki is in the shape of a hawk and the other is shaped like in monkey hiding in a rock This is part of a mounted set mid 19th-early 20th century Edo-Meiji gold shakudo ray skin silk cord cm 22 2 accession number 51 1236 3B 79672 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquistion unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters none place of origin Edo present-day Tokyo Japan Walters Art Museum license Tsuka in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Kurowa Katsubumi Reliefs of monkeys on Japanese sword fittings | ||||
