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>Costume Studies
>>1702 Edo samurai
>>>swords
>>>>sword fittings
>>>>>Museu do Oriente
Subjectsamurai warrior
Culture: Japanese
Setting: Tokugawa shogunate, Japan 17th-mid 19thc
Object: 拵え koshirae individual sword fittings = 鐔 tsuba guard, 切羽 seppa washer, 鎺 habaki blade collar, 縁  fuchi scabbard collar, 
                                                                             頭 kashira scabbard chape, 目貫 menuki grip ornaments, 小刀 kogatana by-knife, 笄 kōgai pick