Sword guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Crests and Arabesques (家紋散唐草文鐔)
Koike Izumi no Kami Naomasa
late 16th–early 17th century
Medium
Iron, brass, copper
Dimensions
Diam. 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm); thickness 3/16 in. (0.5 cm); Wt. 5.4 oz. (153.1 g)
Classification
Sword Furniture-Tsuba
Culture
Japanese
Department
Arms and Armor
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936
Accession Number
36.120.92
Tags
Flowers