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Tsuba with heraldic cranefront

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Tsuba with heraldic crane

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Japan (place of creation)
    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
    iron,
    copper
    Technique index
    forged,
    openwork,
    cut,
    plugged
    Object type index
    tsuba
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by Sir Arthur H. Church, 1915.
    Accession no.
    EAX.10020

  • 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

Location

    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

  • The A.H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba) by Albert James Koop

    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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