Title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)
Object type: Knife handle (Kozuka)
Date: mid–late 18th century
Culture: Japanese
Artist:  Gotō Mitsumori (Keijō) 
Artist bio: Japanese, 1741–1804, fourteenth-generation Gotō master
Artist nationality: Japanese
Artist role: Fittings maker
Medium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, silver
Dimensions: L. 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm); W. 9/16 in. (1.4 cm)
Classification: Sword Furniture-Kozuka
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1945
Geography: Country of Origin    Japan      
Department: Arms and Armor
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Fish