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Tsuba with dragons and shippō diaper of interlaced circles
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with openwork decoration, engraved decoration, and intaglio carving
- Dimensions
- 7.3 x 6.8 cm (height x width)
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- Technique 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.10808
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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. 808
Glossary (2)
shippō, tsuba
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shippō
Lit. ‘Eight Treasures’ – cloisonné
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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)
Regular shippō diaper (interlacing circles), with no undercutting, interrupted by two symmetrical ascending dragons fret-cut with intaglio modelling (rare technique), as is also the pearl the guard; oval seppadai engraved with an ogival compartment of cloud forms; kōgai-hole with special ogival border, kozuka-hole of similar shape, but cut later.
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