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Round tsuba with aoi, or hollyhock leaves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 18th century
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and engraved decoration
- Dimensions
- 8 x 8 cm (height x width)
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- Technique index
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cut,
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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.10608
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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. 608
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)
Four bars crosswise join the border to the seppadai and ryōhitsu, leaving four large rounded openings, each filled by a symmetrical spray of three aoi leaves springing from the seppadai; fret-piercing with engraving finish to the leaves.
The iron is cracked in one or two places and is not of good quality therefore; the cutting also is not very fine.
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