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Description: | ; Classification(s): sword fitting, tsuba; Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1912 [MAR.ARM.O.136-1912]
Description: Iron. Squarish, deeply hammered surface. A serpent, sentokudo, wriggles about on both surfaces, pursuing a frog, ukibon, which in turn is after a snail, shibuichi, on the other side. The scene corresponds with Japanese idea - the serpent is stronger than the fog, the frog than the snail and the snail than the serpent. for the serpent always shirks contact with the snail. in front of the frog is a leaf of the maiden-hair tree, copper. signature: Ichiyosai | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | tsuba sword fitting | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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