Sword guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Crests and Arabesques (家紋散唐草文鐔)
Koike Izumi no Kami Naomasa
late 16th–early 17th century
Medium
Iron, brass, copper
Dimensions
Diam. 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm); thickness 1/8 in. (0.3 cm); Wt. 4 oz. (10.2 g)
Classification
Sword Furniture-Tsuba
Culture
Japanese
Department
Arms and Armor
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936
Accession Number
36.120.93
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Flowers