Sword guard (Tsuba) Depicting Head on Stick Toy (?????) 1860 (Ansei 7, 1st month) Japanese This iron tsuna is trimmed along its rim with a prominent brass fitting (fukurin) and depicts on its obverse a head-on-a-stick toy (kubi-ningy?) and a Chinese lantern plant (h?zuki) attached to it. The reverse is apart from a roly-poly Daruma doll (okiagari koboshi) Sword guard (Tsuba) Depicting Head on Stick Toy (?????). Japanese. 1860 (Ansei 7, 1st month). Iron, brass, gold, copper, copper-gold alloy (shakud?). Sword Furniture-Tsuba

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