Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Horned Owl in Plum Tree (梅樹に木菟図鐔)

Medium

Brass, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, silver, copper

Dimensions

H. 3 in. (7.6 cm); W. 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm); thickness 3/16 in. (0.5 cm); Wt. 4.3 oz. (121.9 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

91.1.778

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