# Sword Guard (Tsuba)

- By: Inscribed by Ishiguro Masayoshi
- Date: 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
- Credit line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/24623)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/met/CRDImages/aa/web-large/LC-36_120_79-002.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)