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Tsuba with mitsudomoye, or three-comma shapes
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 18th century
- Artist/maker
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Shimizu-Jingo School (possibly active 17th - 19th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- sentoku, inlaid with gold, and with silver nunome-zōgan decoration; ryōhitsu with shakudō demi-plugs; shakudō rim; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.3 x 6.9 x 0.285 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › sentoku,processed material › metal › gold,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,
- 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.10317
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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. 317
Glossary (4)
nunome-zōgan, sentoku, shakudō, tsuba
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nunome-zōgan
Decorative application of metal sheeting (generally of gold or silver) where the iron ground is first cross-hatched and the metal burnished on.
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sentoku
A kind of brass made from an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin.
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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black 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)
Each face covered with an irregular diaper of mitsudomoye (three-comma) badges and karakusa scrolls in tinted gold and silver nunome; large ryōhitsu, one trifoliate, the other five-lobed, both with shakudō demi-plugs; striated shakudō rim.
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