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Tsuba with arrows and myōga, or ginger shoots
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 18th century
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and with engraved decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.2 x 7.1 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.10035
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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. 35
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)
Sparse openwork with slight engraving finish; parts of five arrows (four of them converging to the left) and one myōga device (ginger shoot) within the narrow border.
Hayashi Collection. Resembles a guard figured in the Sōken Kisho, 1781, Bk.V, p.21, as one of the famous guards of antiquity, under the name of Kachi-ikusa, "Victorious Battle."
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