Hand guard, Tsuba in the shape of a Greek cross with three openwork petals between the arms, the four arms are decorated on both sides with characters in stamp script and symbols in flat inlays, signed 'umetada ko' (?)., Umetada, Japan, 1600 - 1800, Momoyama-period (1573-1615) / Edo-period (1600-1868), iron (metal), gold (metal), silver (metal), h cm × w 8 cm

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Hand guard, Tsuba in the shape of a Greek cross with three openwork petals between the arms, the four arms are decorated on both sides with characters in stamp script and symbols in flat inlays, signed 'umetada ko' (?)., Umetada, Japan, 1600 - 1800, Momoyama-period (1573-1615) / Edo-period (1600-1868), iron (metal), gold (metal), silver (metal), h cm × w 8 cm

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Keywords: 1573-1615, 1600, 1600-1868, 1800, arms, black--white, characters, cross, decorated, edo-period, flat, gold, greek, guard, hand, inlays, iron, japan, ko, metal, momoyama-period, openwork, petals, script, shape, sides, signed, stamp, symbols, tsuba, umetada