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An unpublished catalogue of the A. H. Church collection of Japanese sword-guards (tsuba) by Albert James Koop.
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Tsuba with asters, orchids, and rinzu, or swastika-fret diaper
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Literature notes
On each face are asters and orchids in low relief against a fret-cut diaper of swastika sharacter (rinzu); narrow raised border.
Signed: Sunagawa Masanori (as no.702 [EAX.10702]) kore wo chiribamu ([Japanese text], "engraved this"), Chōshū no dzu wo motte ([Japanese text], "after a Chōshū design").
This signature is interesting as classifying the design by the school (Group XIV) which seems to have originated it; this is unusual, though acknowledgments of a design to an individual artist are comparatively common. -
Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration
- Dimensions
- 7.8 x 7.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
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arms/armour › koshirae › kodogu › tsuba
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by Sir Arthur H. Church, 1915.
- Accession no.
- EAX.10703
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Further reading
Koop, Albert James, The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba), 3 vols (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1929), no. 703
Glossary
tsuba
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tsuba
Japanese sword guard.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
On each face are asters and orchids in low relief against a fret-cut diaper of swastika sharacter (rinzu); narrow raised border.
Signed: Sunagawa Masanori (as no.702 [EAX.10702]) kore wo chiribamu ([Japanese text], "engraved this"), Chōshū no dzu wo motte ([Japanese text], "after a Chōshū design").
This signature is interesting as classifying the design by the school (Group XIV) which seems to have originated it; this is unusual, though acknowledgments of a design to an individual artist are comparatively common.
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