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| Keywords: Oishi Akichika - Tsuba with the Treasures of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune - Walters 51215 - Mark.jpg This tsuba shows a man gazing up at Mount Fuji surrounded by some of the attributes of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune These are the contents of the treasure bag carried by Hotei one of the gods The man rests against Hotei's bag Next to the bag is a sacred jewel At the bottom of the tsuba is Daitoku's hammer Just above the hammer is a sacred key The disk on the left with notches on two sides is a coin Mount Fuji can be seen in the upper left On the reverse branches of cherry blossoms frame the upper portion of the tsuba Along the bottom from right to left are an inexhaustible bag of money another coin a feather cape a bale of rice a hat the makes the wearer invisible and another treasure jewel 1851 late Edo shibuichi gold silver shakudo cm 9 8 4 0 45 accession number 51 215 13635 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Inscrioption kaei kanotoi nanryo/akichika; Translation August 1851/Akichika place of origin Edo present-day Tokyo Japan Walters Art Museum license Tsuba in the Walters Art Museum Oishi Akichika Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
