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Round tsuba with a snow heap and matsukawa-bishi, or overlapping lozengesfront

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Round tsuba with a snow heap and matsukawa-bishi, or overlapping lozenges

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Japan (Kishū) (place of creation)
    Date
    18th century (1701 - 1800)
    Material and technique
    iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
    Dimensions
    8.2 x 8.2 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.10065

  • Further reading

    Koop, Albert James, The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba), 3 vols (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1929), no. 65

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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)

    Pierced in negative silhouette with a large matsukawa-bishi (badge of overlapping lozenges) supplying the kōgai-hole, a large "snow-heap" surrounding the oblong kozuka-hole, and, above, a rounded piercing with double cusp.

    Signed (in swordsmiths' style): Kishū no jū (resident of Kishū province) Sadakane ([Japanese text]).

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