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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with decorative plugs
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Settsu province (Kiyosu) (possible place of creation)Asia › Japan › Honshū › Aichi prefecture › Owari province (possible place of creation)
- Date
- possibly 16th century (1501 - 1600)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and the surface possibly polished (migaki-ji); copper ryōhitsu plugs, with gold rims; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 9 x 8.5 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.10060
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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. 60
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)
Irregular mokkō; very rough surface pierced with a nearly symmetrical group of four holes above and below; ryōhitsu of [symmetrical scalloped and bi-lobed ellipse] form plugged with stone-grain copper edged with gold [see Fig. 4].
This guard appears to have been burnt, and, if really old, has been much polished up in modern times and the ryōhitsu provided with their sumptuous plugs.
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