Sword guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Bodhidharma Facing a Wall (面壁達磨図鐔)

Medium

Copper alloy (sentoku), copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold

Dimensions

H. 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm); W. 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm); thickness 3/8 in. (1 cm); Wt. 6.9 oz. (195.6 g)

Classification

Sword Furniture-Tsuba

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

91.1.803

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