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Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) With (probably) the Motif of The Seven Sages in the Bamboo Groove (竹林七賢か透鐔)
Unknown maker
- Medium
- Iron, gold, copper, copper-gold alloy (shakudō)
- Dimensions
- Diam. 3 9/16 in. (9 cm); thickness 3/16 in. (0.5 cm); Wt. 4.7 oz. (133.2 g)
- Culture
- Japanese
- Department
- Arms and Armor
- Classification
- Sword Furniture-Tsuba
- Dated
- ca. 1615–1868
- Pixels
- 3648 × 3648
- SHA-256
- 45c1a73bd02159fb…
- Record
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License, verbatimCC0
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Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) With (probably) the Motif of The Seven Sages in the Bamboo Groove (竹林七賢か透鐔). ca. 1615–1868. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.