Delkay4000 Posted April 10 Report Posted April 10 Can someone help me identify the theme on this Tsuba. I have conflicting assessments that it is either showing the Fox’s Wedding or the legend of Hakuzosu? thanks Quote
Jake6500 Posted April 11 Report Posted April 11 (edited) Both might be possible but I would think the kitsune wedding would make more sense given the apparent presence of references to the annual harvest. If you look at the bottom right of the tsuba you'll see what appear to be rice bales. Inari are associated with the harvest generally, however this seems to link more closely with the kitsune no yomeiri theme as there is seemingly no harvest connection in the story of Hakuzosu. The rice bales also double as a symbol of wealth and prosperity under the kokudaka system in which rice was traded as currency. Wealth and prosperity is typically something you would wish for a couple at their wedding, whilst it is something a buddhist monk might cast aside as a worldly attachment. Edited April 11 by Jake6500 Quote
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