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Tsuba depicting a hunter in a landscape
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 19th century
- Material and technique
- shibuichi, with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 6.7 x 0.3 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › silver 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.10982
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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. 982
Glossary (2)
shibuichi, tsuba
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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)
In fine modelling and bold iroye incrustation a hunter, with straw helmet, single sword and matchlock, stands blowing a deer-call; near him is a small cascade, in the distance are hills and the waning moon; at the back in sunk relief are a fallow deer and doe benearh a pine-tree. Signed: Kwanzui ([Japanese text]). (Probably Murota Kwanzui II, pupil of Iwama Masayoshi.)
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