Three menuki (paired hilt ornaments) Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th century The first of gold and shakudo, each in the form of two galloping horses; the second of gold and copper, respectively in the form of a rat burrowing into and emerging from a daikon; the third of shibuichi, each formed as a component of a kutsuwa (horse bit); each pair with a plain wood storage box. (9).