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Tsuba with 'stick-lac' decoration and monkeys amid rocks
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 18th century
- Material and technique
- iron, with hammered-up edge, the ground inlaid with metal ('stick-lac' gomoku-zōgan), and with copper and gilt copper; shibuichi kozuka-hole rim; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.2 x 6.5 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shibuichi,
- Technique index
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covered › metallized › gilded,
- 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.10177
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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. 177
Glossary (3)
kozuka, shibuichi, tsuba
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kozuka
The handle that holds the small knife called the kogatana.
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shibuichi
alloy of copper and silver, patinated to a dull grey-green 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)
Rounded edge, heavily hammered up; very rough ground representing rocks, largely covered with "stick-lac" gomoku, among which gambol four (or three) tiny monkeys in copper-gilt (one in plain copper).
The kozuka-hole recently lined with shibuichi.
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