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Lenticular tsuba with figures and a tiger in a landscape
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- possibly 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- iron, with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration in metals including shibuichi; edge with gold nunome-zōgan decoration
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 7 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › alloy › silver alloy › shibuichi,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shibuichi,
- 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.11104
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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. 1104
Glossary (3)
nunome-zōgan, shibuichi, tsuba
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nunome-zōgan
Decorative application of metal sheeting (generally of gold or silver) where the iron ground is first cross-hatched and the metal burnished on.
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shibuichi
alloy of copper and silver, patinated to a dull grey-green colour
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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)
Slightly lenticular; in low relief and rich iroye incrustation are two curly-haired "foreigners" standing, one wearing a sword with cock's-head pommel and carrying a basket, the other carrying a nioi (jui) sceptre; both wear rich jewellery; a small tiger in shibuichi is at their feet, and near by are rocks with a waterfall, continued at the back, where a small tree is also seen; edge almost covered with squares of gold nunome. Signed in a gold-inlaid seal partly cut away: Toshiyuki [Japanese text]. (Okamoto Naoshige, d.1780.)
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