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Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

Unknown Artist

A fuchigashira is a pair of matching sword fittings comprising the fuchi (collar at the base of the grip of the sword hilt) and kashira (pommel cap at the end of a sword hilt).

Credit: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936

Second half 18th century

Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold

1.0 in

36.120.444a, b

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