Hand guard
Category
Arms and armour
Date
Unknown
Materials
Iron
Measurements
81 x 77 x 3 mm
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1328855
Summary
Hand guard; Tsuba (sword hand guard) - Oval, waisted shape, signed Shigehide on the reverse - blade hole in centre, and a hole each side of it. Decoration of cobwebs and wood grain,small spider and flowers. Cobweb and wood grain on reverse.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
Shigehide