The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono)

Gotō Tsūjō

late 17th–early 18th century

Attribution

Gotō Tsūjō Japanese, Mitsunobu, 1664–1721, eleventh-generation Gotō master

Medium

Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, silver, ink, paper

Physical dimensions

L. of kogai (a) 8 1/4 in. (21 cm); L. of menuki (b) 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); L. of menuki (c) 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm); L. of kozuka (d) 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm)

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1945