Hand guard, Oval tsuba with two fields with openwork decoration in positive silhouette of star patterns, on both sides in raised relief rope-pulling monkeys, the rope running through one of the ryo-hitu, signed 'hishu yagami ju mitsuhiro'., Mitsuhiro (II), Japan, 1800 - 1850, Edo-period (1600-1868), iron (metal), gold (metal), h cm × w 7 cm

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Hand guard, Oval tsuba with two fields with openwork decoration in positive silhouette of star patterns, on both sides in raised relief rope-pulling monkeys, the rope running through one of the ryo-hitu, signed 'hishu yagami ju mitsuhiro'., Mitsuhiro (II), Japan, 1800 - 1850, Edo-period (1600-1868), iron (metal), gold (metal), h cm × w 7 cm

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