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Japanese
Sword guard with swallows, willow tree, bridge and iris design (Tsubame yanagi hashi ayame zu tsuba 燕柳橋菖蒲図鍔) Edo period (1600-1615)-1868
iron, copper, gilt
0.6 × 7.0 × 7.4 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1921
Photo: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

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