Tsuba with design of a tanuki drumming on its belly beneath the moon
- Japanese, Edo Period, mid-19th century
- By Takahashi Yoshitsugu, Japanese, 1842–1873
- School Tanaka School, Japanese
- Dimensions
- Overall: 7 x 6.4 x 0.6 cm (2 3/4 x 2 1/2 x 1/4 in.)
- Medium or Technique
- Main material: iron; other metals: gold, shakudo and shibuichi; decorative technique: iroe takazogan
- Classification
- Arms and armor
- Type
- Tsuba; rounded rectangular; kozuka-hitsu; edge: uchidashi, almost square
- Accession Number
- 11.5425
- Not on view
