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Knife Handle (Kozuka)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a rectangular object titled "Knife Handle (Kozuka)" by an unknown artist. The object is long and thin with a gold border. The background of the object is black. There are five small objects on the black background. From left to right, there is a small gold cylinder, a black object with a fan shape made of many thin black pieces, a gold fan shape made of many thin gold pieces, another small gold cylinder, and a thin black and gold object. The background behind the object is gray.

Artwork details

Date:
late 18th–early 19th century
Medium:
Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, silver
Culture:
Japanese
Dimensions:
599 × 337 px
Museum record:
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