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Summary
A crow and a heron are perched on a pine branch at the lower right side of this tsuba. The heron is made of silver, and the crow is made of a copper alloy. The silver of the heron would have originally been white. The white heron and the black crow appear as a metaphor for the pairing of opposites or ying and yang. Incised lines indicate rain. There is a pine branch on the reverse.
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1850
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Walters Art Museum
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