Keywords: Kikugawa Hisahide - Tsuba with a Flowering Gourd Vine - Walters 51268 - Back.jpg A flowering gourd vine applied to the iron body in gilt runs along the lower and right edges of this tsuba The motif repeats on the reverse between 1780 1800 Edo iron gilt cm 7 18 6 86 0 55 accession number 51 268 8028 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquistion unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Signature Kikugawa Hisahide kao place of origin Edo present-day Tokyo Otowa-cho Koishikawa Japan Walters Art Museum license Tsuba in the Walters Art Museum Kikugawa Hisahide Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review |