Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Two Gibbons (二疋手長猿図鐔)

Medium

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

Dimensions

H. 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm); W. 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm); thickness 3/8 in. (1 cm); Wt. 3.7 oz. (104 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

91.1.775

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