met-armsarmor: Sword Guard (Tsuba), Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arms and Armor The Howard Mansfield
met-armsarmor: Sword Guard (Tsuba), Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arms and Armor The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NYMedium: Iron, gold, silver, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copperhttp://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/30027 -- source link