MAKE A MEME View Large Image Unno Moritoshi - Tsuba Referring to the Noh Play "Kayoi Komachi" - Walters 51385 - Back.jpg At the lower right of the tsuba a dog sits among reeds with a skull and a skeleton A full moon breaks through clouds at the upper right This scene ...
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Keywords: Unno Moritoshi - Tsuba Referring to the Noh Play "Kayoi Komachi" - Walters 51385 - Back.jpg At the lower right of the tsuba a dog sits among reeds with a skull and a skeleton A full moon breaks through clouds at the upper right This scene is a traditional reference to the noh play Kayoi Komachi The Nightly Courting of Komachi Ono no Komachi was a 9th-century poet In the play her spirit and the spirit of her suitor Fukakusa no Shôshô appear to a priest The priest deduces that one of the ghosts is Ono no Komachi because the ghost makes a reference to her poem about pampas grass growing through a skull On the back the straw hat at the lower left is an allusion to a legend about Ariwara no Narihira finding Komachi's skull while he was traveling 1866 Edo copper gold silver cm 8 4 accession number 51 385 14749 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Date Keio ni hi-no-e tora nanro/Unno Moritoshi kore o kizamu; Signature Keio ni hi-no-e tora nanro/Unno Moritoshi kore o kizamu; Translation Eighth month in the second year of Keio 1866 the year of the Tiger/This was engraved by Unno Moritoshi place of origin Mito Japan Walters Art Museum license Tosogu Japanese sword fittings in the Walters Art Museum Unno Moritoshi Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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