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| Keywords: Nara Toshinaga I - Tsuba with Enshi (Ch Yen Tzu), One of the Twenty Four Paragons of Filial Piety - Walters 51305 - Back.jpg This tsuba depicts Enshi Ch Yen Tzu one of the twenty four paragons of filial piety from the Chinese Zhou Chou Dynasty 1122-255 BC Enshi's parents had a eye ailment that could only be cured by deer's milk His family was too poor to buy the expensive milk so Enshi disguised himself like a deer in order to get milk directly from does in the herd near his home The tsuba depicts two hunters on the right who almost kill Enshi because they think he really is a deer Enshi is on the left wearing a deer skin between 1667 1736 Edo shibuichi with gold and copper details lead cm 7 16 6 74 0 43 accession number 51 305 34261 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquistion unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Signature Toshinaga kao place of origin Edo present-day Tokyo Japan Walters Art Museum license Tosogu Japanese sword fittings in the Walters Art Museum Nara Toshinaga I Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
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