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Sword guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Bodhidharma (達磨図鐔)
18th century
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture or place
- Japanese
- Medium
- Iron, gold, silver
- Size
- D. 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm); thickness 9/16 in. (1.4 cm); Wt. 8.9 oz. (252.3 g)
- Type
- Sword Furniture-Tsuba
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Licence
- Public domain: free to use, no permission needed
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