Sword guard (Tsuba) With the Motif of Paulownia Leaves, Tendrils, and Butterfly (蝶に桐唐草図鐔)Japanese · ca. 1615–1868

Copper alloy (sentoku), gold, copper, copper-gold alloy (shakudō)The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0 1.0Lindy Arts

Sword guard (Tsuba) With the Motif of Paulownia Leaves, Tendrils, and Butterfly (蝶に桐唐草図鐔)

Japanese · ca. 1615–1868

Copper alloy (sentoku), gold, copper, copper-gold alloy (shakudō)

Sword guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) With the Motif of Paulownia Leaves, Tendrils, and Butterfly (蝶に桐唐草図鐔)