Sword guard (&lt;i&gt;Tsuba&lt;/i&gt;) Depicting Crests and Arabesques (家紋散唐草文鐔)
Object type: Sword guard (Tsuba)
Department: Arms and Armor
Culture: Japanese
Artist: Koike Izumi no Kami Naomasa
Artist bio: Japanese, active late 16th–early 17th century
Artist role: Fittings maker
Artist nationality: Japanese
Date: 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
Credit line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936
Accession year: 1936
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