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Lozenge-shaped tsuba with dragon amid clouds
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- iron, with folded edges, taka-zōgan (high relief inlay) in brass, and with partly silvered brazed brass decoration
- Dimensions
- 9.3 x 9 x 0.8 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › brass,
- 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.10135
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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. 135
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)
Lozenge-shaped with truncated angles, being formed from a circular plate by folding over the edge to front or back; the front encrusted with parts of a dragon in brass amid clouds represented by irregular patches of brazing brass, silvered in places; two similar patches at the back.
Japan Society's Loan Exhibition, London, 1905, no.Q.58. Duplicate of a gurad in the Victoria and Albert Museum, from the Hawkshaw Collection, no.3284, in the Catalogue of which it was dated by H.L.Joly as 17th-18th century.
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