Sword guard "sukashi tsuba" · Japan · ID: 3039686
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Size
H: 8 cm
H: 3.1 inch
Description
iron with brass, “maru gata” with two “hitsu-ana”, with cut-out design, called “sukashi”, depicting the crest of Nabeshima family/“Nabeshima myoga” (“Nabeshima ginger”);
the Nabeshima clan is a Japanese samurai kin group of Edo period (16th century).
The object Sword guard “sukashi tsuba” with the object ID 3039686 was last part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction at October 31, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 61.
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