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An unpublished catalogue of the A. H. Church collection of Japanese sword-guards (tsuba) by Albert James Koop.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

  • Literature notes

    In shape similar to the last [EAX.11255], but with the angle-openings replaced by solid groups of disks; no other decoration. Signed: Tenshi no nichi-gwatsu saku on-tachi no tsuba wo utsusu ("copying the guard on the Emperor's Sun and Moon tachi") Andō [Japanese text] Yoshihide [Japanese text] and dated "a lucky day in the first month of Meiji II (1869)". (Unrecorded.)

    I have no information as to the tachi (sword) here referred to.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    1869
    Material and technique
    iron
    Dimensions
    7.4 x 6.8 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by Sir Arthur H. Church, 1915.
    Accession no.
    EAX.11256
  • Further reading

    Koop, Albert James, The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba), 3 vols (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1929), no. 1256

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)

    In shape similar to the last [EAX.11255], but with the angle-openings replaced by solid groups of disks; no other decoration. Signed: Tenshi no nichi-gwatsu saku on-tachi no tsuba wo utsusu ("copying the guard on the Emperor's Sun and Moon tachi") Andō [Japanese text] Yoshihide [Japanese text] and dated "a lucky day in the first month of Meiji II (1869)". (Unrecorded.)

    I have no information as to the tachi (sword) here referred to.
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