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Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Fittings maker Inscribed by Ishiguro Masayoshi
19th century
- Medium
- Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), copper
- Classification
- Sword Furniture-Tsuba
- Dimensions
- H. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm); W. 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm); thickness 5/16 in. (0.8 cm); Wt. 5.4 oz. (153.1 g)
- Culture
- Japanese
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arms and Armor
- Credit line
- The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
