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Tsuba with bamboo-shaped rim

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tsuba

  • 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)

    Square, with rounded angles; general ground of coarse ishime, further punched with numerous small devices, mostly circular, singly or in close and regular groups; stout silver rim modelled as bamboo; ryōhitsu eyeletted with bamboo-pattern silver, one somewhat cresent-shaped.

    Japan Society's Loan Exhibition, London, 1905, no.R.40. A guard of unusually striking appearance.

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