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Curationist Object Description

This Edo-era tsuba, or Japanese sword guard, depicts a hare surfing the ocean waves. It illustrates a tale from the Kojiki, the oldest extant collection of Japanese writing. In the story, a hare crosses the ocean by using sharks as stepping stones.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Object Description

Sword guard (Tsuba)

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