Sword Guard (Tsuba) Depicting Dragon and Paulownia Leaves With Tendrils (龍と桐唐草図鐔) ca. 1615–1868 Japanese The plate of this tsuba has a polished finish (migaki-ji) and is decorated on the obverse with a flush copper hira-zōgan inlay in the form of a dragon with partial gold highlights and golden clouds. The reverse shows a flush copper hira-zōgan inlay of paulownia leaves with tendrils and the rim is decorated in gold nunome-zōgan. A small opening has been added next to the opening for the tang (nakago-hitsu), probably for some kind of retention Sword Guard (Tsuba) Depicting Dragon and P
Sword Guard (Tsuba) Depicting Dragon and Paulownia Leaves With Tendrils (龍と桐唐草図鐔) ca. 1615–1868 Japanese The plate of this tsuba has a polished finish (migaki-ji) and is decorated on the obverse with a flush copper hira-zōgan inlay in the form of a dragon with partial gold highlights and golden clouds. The reverse shows a flush copper hira-zōgan inlay of paulownia leaves with tendrils and the rim is decorated in gold nunome-zōgan. A small opening has been added next to the opening for the tang (nakago-hitsu), probably for some kind of retention Sword Guard (Tsuba) Depicting Dragon and Paulownia Leaves With Tendrils (龍と桐唐草図鐔) 25682
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