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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)

An unpublished catalogue of the A. H. Church collection of Japanese sword-guards (tsuba) by Albert James Koop.

The A.H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba) by Albert James Koop

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Hamidashi tsuba with leafy scrolls

  • Literature notes

    Hamidashi guard; covered (including the edge) with leafy scrolls in brass inlay, interrupted on each face by a chrysanthemoid badge in silver wire with brass border.

    Hamidashi (literally "squeezed out", like glue from a crack) is the name for a dagger guard of minimum size (looking, when mounted, as if squeezed out between handle and scabbard-mouth). Such guards usually have a full-size oval kozuka-hole which actually cuts into the edge of the metal, as here.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    18th century (1701 - 1800)
    Material and technique
    iron, with hira-zōgan (flat inlay) in silver wire and brass
    Dimensions
    6 x 4.3 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    processed material › metal › iron,
    processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › brass,
    processed material › metal › silver
    Technique index
    forged,
    covered › inlaid
    Object type index
    arms/armour › koshirae › kodogu › tsuba
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by Sir Arthur H. Church, 1915.
    Accession no.
    EAX.10155

  • Further reading

    Koop, Albert James, The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba), 3 vols (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1929), no. 155

Glossary

tsuba

  • tsuba

    Japanese sword guard.

Location

    • currently in research collection

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  • The A.H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba) by Albert James Koop

    The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)

    Hamidashi guard; covered (including the edge) with leafy scrolls in brass inlay, interrupted on each face by a chrysanthemoid badge in silver wire with brass border.

    Hamidashi (literally "squeezed out", like glue from a crack) is the name for a dagger guard of minimum size (looking, when mounted, as if squeezed out between handle and scabbard-mouth). Such guards usually have a full-size oval kozuka-hole which actually cuts into the edge of the metal, as here.
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