Knife Handle (<i>Kozuka</i>) Depicting Shells on Beach (海辺に貝散図小柄)

Medium

Copper-gold alloy (<i>shakudō</i>), gold, brass, abalone shell

Dimensions

L. 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm); W. 9/16 in. (1.4 cm); thickness 3/16 in. (0.5 cm); Wt. 1.1 oz. (31.2 g)

Classification

Sword Furniture-Kozuka

Culture

Japanese

Department

Arms and Armor

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891

Accession Number

91.1.841

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