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Round tsuba with plum blossom and narcissus flowers
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th - 19th century (1601 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration
- Dimensions
- 7.7 x 7.7 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- 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.10366
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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. 366
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)
As far as design goes, another duplicate of 360 [EAX.10360].
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