Sword guard (tsuba)
Unknown, Japanese, Japanese
Iron and gold
Overall: 2 5/8 × 2 9/16 in. (6.7 × 6.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Collection of Roger Arvid Anderson, Class of 1968
EL.2017.65.86
Geography
Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia
Object Name
Armament: Accessory
Research Area
Asia
Not on view
Provenance
Nanbando Fine Antiques (Nobuya Yamada), Tokyo, Japan; sold to Roger Arvid Anderson, San Francisco, California, 1989; lent to present collection, 1994-2003; lent to present collection, 2017.
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