Sword guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Head on Stick Toy (首人形図鐔)
Unknown Artist
1860 (Ansei 7, 1st month)
Medium
Iron, brass, gold, copper, copper-gold alloy (shakudō)
Dimensions
H. 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm); W. 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm); thickness 7/16 in. (1.1 cm); Wt. 6.8 oz. (192.8 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
91.1.808
Tags
Faces