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Tsuba with reeds, willow, and a spider

Glossary (3)

nunome-zōgan, shakudō, tsuba

  • nunome-zōgan

    Decorative application of metal sheeting (generally of gold or silver) where the iron ground is first cross-hatched and the metal burnished on.

  • shakudō

    alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour

  • 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)

    Each face with a few irregular groups of rounded hollows; on the front a floating willow-leaf in incrustation of shakudō with gold-inlaid venation and gold nunome back; on it is a gilt spider; at the back broken reeds by a stream in faint modelling touched with gold nunome; four-sided kōgai-hole; rim half silver, half shakudō.

    Signed: Bōshū Iwakuni no jū ("resident of Iwakuni in Suō province") Kataoka Tadayuki [Japanese text].

    Compare the next [EAX.10308].

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