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Octagonal tsuba with dragons and clouds
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Material and technique
- obverse and reverse: iron; kōgai-hole plugged with lead; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper obverse: iron, inlaid with gold wire, and with gold nunome-zōgan decoration reverse: inlaid with copper, copper wire, and gold; copper inlay engraved
- Dimensions
- 8.1 x 8.1 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,
- 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.10843
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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. 843
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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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Octagonal; on the front flat decoration in gold nunome (an ascending an descending dragon with conch-shell); on the back engraved copper inlay with gold edging (dragon and clouds); sd. marked with double-lined long-octagonal frame of gold wire on the front, gold and copper wire on the back; narrow border and edge gilt; lead plug in kōgai-hole. Hizen (Nagasaki work).
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