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Tsuba with heraldic crane
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 18th century
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 8.3 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- Technique index
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cut,
- 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.10020
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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. 20
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)
Fine openwork design in the form of an heraldic crane (tsuru) with wings symmetrically spread, the seppadai representing the body; the head and neck with slight engraving finish; edge rounded, slightly notched where the wing-tips meet over the head. A very similar guard in the Fukukawa Collection in Japan (No. 33) has a multilobate edge, while that of the Church example is unbroken.
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