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Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dark brown sword guard with a central elongated oval-shaped hole and two rounded rectangular holes on either side, featuring a relief design of a man with a long curved object and an object in his other hand against a background of gold speckles and wavy lines on the left and rounded protrusions on the right, with a gold square design with intricate patterns in the bottom-left corner. Sword guard by Masahiro.

Artwork Details

Date
18th century
Medium
Iron, gold, copper
Culture
Japanese
Dimensions
600 × 600 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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