Metal gasket

A metal gasket to be disposed between abutting surfaces of two members, the metal gasket comprising:

• a sheet of metal base plate including a bolt hole through which a bolt is configured to be inserted, a bead section that slants inwardly from the bolt hole and toward a thickness direction of the metal base plate in a rising direction for sealing a space between the abutting surfaces on a more internal circumferential side than the bolt hole, and an outer circumferential perimeter of the metal base plate angled in one direction forming a peripheral creased section configured to prevent formation of a gap in which saline accumulates between the abutting surfaces, wherein the peripheral creased section is one unitary piece forming an angled surface that is disposed in a direction both outwardly opposite and slanted opposite to the rising direction of the bead section, and the peripheral creased section includes a region with a folding length along the peripheral creased section configured so as to become shorter in the gasket circumferential direction toward the perimeter extending in a direction along the peripheral creased section in the vicinity of the bolt hole gradually changing in the gasket circumferential direction and configured to suppress loss of a bolt fastening axial force in compression with the bolt, wherein the peripheral creased section is omitted in vicinity of the bolt hole and disposed in the perimeter of the metal base plate except the vicinity of the bolt hole.