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Aoi-shaped tsuba

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tsuba

  • tsuba

    Japanese sword guard.

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    • 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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