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Octagonal tsuba with pine trees in driving rain

Glossary (2)

shibuichi, tsuba

  • shibuichi

    alloy of copper and silver, patinated to a dull grey-green colour

  • tsuba

    Japanese sword guard.

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    • currently in research collection

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  • The A.H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba) by Albert James Koop

    The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)

    Octagonal; edge heavily hammered up; in soft relief are part of the trunks of two pine-trees and one branch, with slight touches of gold incrustation; driving rain expressed by raised lines of varying height and sharpness. Signed: Kazuo [Japanese text] kizamu [Japanese text] and dated mid-spring of a kanoye-tora year-probably 1890, February. (Unrecorded, but perhaps a pupil or imitator of Natsuo.)

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