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Tsuba with shikunshi, or Four Noble Plants
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- iron border, the holes filled with copper, and with katakiri engraving (oblique chisel-cuts); tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 9.5 x 9.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- 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.10999
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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. 999
Glossary
tsuba
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tsuba
Japanese sword guard.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Lozenge-shaped with the angles truncated and the sides gently lobed. The original iron guard was no more than a stout border united to the sd. at the sides only by two [Figure] shapes (too small for rh.); signed Bushū no jū Kunihiro [Japanese text] saku (18th century). The large openings thus formed have been (later) filled with copper boldly engraved in katakiri style with the shikunshi or Four Noble Plants, i.e. Plum-blossom, Bamboo, Chrysanthemum and Orchid.
Hawkshaw Collection, no. 1186.
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