met-armsarmor:Sword Guard (Tsuba), Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arms and ArmorEdward C. Moore Collect
met-armsarmor:Sword Guard (Tsuba), Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arms and ArmorEdward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NYMedium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copperhttp://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/25701 -- source link
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