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Tsuba with vine and squirrel
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- possibly 17th - 19th century (1601 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, inlaid and fused with sawari, and polished
- Dimensions
- 8 x 7.8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- 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.11183
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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. 1183
Glossary
tsuba
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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)
Polished surface; in fused sawari inlay on the front are the leaves and tendrils of a vine, with grapes in shakudō inlay; at the back is a squirrel in sawari inlay of fine lines. Signed: Seishū Kameyama no jū ("resident of Kameyama in Ise province") Masahide [Japanese text] saku.
Wada, p.85. The largest grape has fallen out and been clumsily replaced.
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