Hand guard
Category
Arms and armour
Date
Unknown
Materials
Lacquer, Leather, Metal
Measurements
5 mm (Width); 73 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Japan
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1328851
Summary
Hand guard; Tsuba (Japanese sword hand guard) - leather style of Mukade. Metal covered with lacquered leather of a reddish brown colour. The leather is textured with two bands around the edge. One hole to the side of the blade space. Flaking in parts. On sword 1328905.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.