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Tsuba with shishi, or lion dog, and waterfall
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 19th century
- Material and technique
- iron
- Dimensions
- 7.3 x 7.1 cm (height x width)
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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.10384
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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. 384
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)
Very bold low-relief carving of rocks with a shishi above; at the back, rocks and a waterfall.
This artist has unusually out-of-the-way names for a sword-furniture maker. The shishi (literally "lion") is more like a rather sturdily built Pekinese spaniel as commonly represented in Japanese art. It is, in fact, the beast so often wrongly called "kylin".
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