Browse: 10610 objects
Round tsuba depicting Sōsan, a Paragon of Filial Virtue, and his mother
-
Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and with engraved decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.4 x 7.4 cm (height x width)
- Material index
-
processed material › metal › iron,
- Technique index
-
cut,
- Object type index
-
arms/armour › koshirae › kodogu › tsuba
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by Sir Arthur H. Church, 1915.
- Accession no.
- EAX.10036
-
Further reading
Koop, Albert James, The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba), 3 vols (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1929), no. 36
Glossary
tsuba
-
tsuba
Japanese sword guard.
Location
-
- currently in research collection
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Publications online
-
The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Sparse openwork depicting the story of Ts'ao Ts'an (in Japanese Sōsan), one of the Chinese Paragons of Filial Piety, who, when a boy, gathering firewood in the forest, was summoned home to his mother by an act of mental telepathy; the two figures are here shown, the mother on a veranda, with two small faggots and a tuft of herbage below and clouds above; engraving finish.
© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum