Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Prawn (海老図鐔)

Medium

Iron, copper, gold, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper-silver alloy (shibuichi)

Dimensions

H. 3 9/16 in. (9 cm); W. 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm); thickness 3/16 in. (0.5 cm); Wt. 8.4 oz. (238.1 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

91.1.776

Tags