Sword guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Minamoto no Hiromasa Playing the Flute (源博雅図鐔)

Medium

Copper, copper-silver alloy (shibuichi)

Dimensions

H. 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); W. 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm); thickness 3/16 in. (0.5 cm); Wt. 4.2 oz. (119.1 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

91.1.793

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