Sword guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) With Flower Basket Motif (花籠透鐔)
Medium
Iron, copper-silver alloy (<i>shibuichi</i>), gold, silver, copper
Dimensions
H. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm); W. 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm); thickness 1/4 in. (0.6 cm); Wt. 3 oz. (85 g)
Classification
Sword Furniture-Tsuba
Culture
Japanese
Department
Arms and Armor
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund, 1919
Accession Number
19.71.6
Tags
Flowers
About the Artist
鈴木勝容 Suzuki Katsuhiro|萩谷勝平 Hagiya Katsuhira (Japanese|Japanese) · 1827 |1804 –1886 |1886
Japanese, 1827–1886|Japanese, 1804–1886