An iron tsuba of round shape inlaid with shakudō, gold, and silver with a motif of a weather-beaten (nozarashi) skull and grasses growing beside as well as through the eye-pit, and a crescent moon above the scene. Grasses on the reverse.

Unsigned.

Dimensions: 71.7 x 70.6 x 4.2 mm

Reference: Skull, bones and grave markers

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