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Tsuba Archive: 353 Japanese Sword Guards
A Chinese-language catalog of Japanese sword guards drawn from public collections at The Met and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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- Readers researching Japanese sword guards and museum collections
- Worth noticing
- It leaves 343 of 353 entries under “unknown” school rather than forcing a lineage attribution.
Field notes
The index combines 144 records from The Met and 209 from the Cleveland Museum of Art, with object IDs and museum-provided dates, materials, dimensions, and licensing noted on the page. Browsing facets group objects by motif, period, and school; 343 records remain under “unknown” school, reflecting the site's stated reliance on museum labels and verifiable title or artist evidence. The page says images from both collections are CC0 and cautions that reuse does not imply museum endorsement.
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