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Description: | Sword guard, tsuba, round but slightly lobed (Maru gata). Two apertures (Nakago-ana, Kozuka Hitsu-ana). Another aperture (Kagai Hitsu-ana) has been filled with metal. On one side is depicted a snail at bottom right and a radial pattern, suggestive of the underside of a mushroom. There are two hollows in top right and left. Radial pattern on reverse. 700h x 670w. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | Japanese sword guards metal iron War- and Peace-making | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-131212 | Go to resource |
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