Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

Gotō Mitsumori (Keijō), mid–late 18th century

Artist

Gotō Mitsumori (Keijō) (Japanese, 1741–1804, fourteenth-generation Gotō master)

Date

mid–late 18th century

Culture or place

Japanese

Medium

Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, silver

Size

L. of each 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)

Type

Sword Furniture-Menuki

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Licence

Public domain: free to use, no permission needed