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Tsuba with two children representing the twin pines of Takasago
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- late 18th century - 1st half of the 19th century
- Material and technique
- iron, inlaid with gold
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 7.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- 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.10393
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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. 393
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)
Finely modelled in low relief with a seashore scene, continued on the back, with a forked pine-tree and two children (representing the old couple, spirits of the twin pines of Takasago); slight gold inlay on their coats.
Signed: Chōhan Masayuki [Japanese text].
Possibly the Ayabe Masayuki who signs an extraordinarily fine guard in the Victoria and Albert Museum, and one in the Hamburg Museum.
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