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).