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Tsuba in the form of two overlapping oak leaves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 2nd half of the 18th century
- Artist/maker
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Umetada Kirokurō (active 2nd half of the 18th century) (armourer)Umetada School (active 16th century - 19th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with traces of gold nunome-zōgan decoration
- Dimensions
- 8.4 x 8.7 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- 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.10203
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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. 203
Glossary (2)
nunome-zōgan, tsuba
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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.
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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)
Irregularly lobed outline, formed by two leaves of oak with delicately modelled venation, overlapping above and below and embracing the seppadai and the trefoil kozuka-hole; remains of gold nunome edge the distal section of each leaf.
Signed: Chōshū Hagi no jū ("resident of Hagi in Nagato province") Umetada Kirokurō [Japanese text] (in cursive).
Japan Society's Loan Ehibition, London, 1905, no. Q.36.
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