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

Unknown maker

Medium: Iron, copper
Dimensions: Diam. 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm); thickness 1/8 in. (0.3 cm); Wt. 3.5 oz. (99.2 g)
Culture: Japanese
Department: Arms and Armor
Classification: Sword Furniture-Tsuba
Dated: probably 17th century
Pixels: 3648 × 3648
SHA-256: 533938f0747e03a1…
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License, verbatimCC0

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Open Access, Creative Commons Zero (CC0). Flagged isPublicDomain=true in the museum's own record.

Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>). probably 17th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.