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Tsuba with plants and a Buddhist invocation
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, carved in low and sunk relief, with polished surface (migaki-ji), and traces of gold nunome-zōgan decoration
- Dimensions
- 9.3 x 8.8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- Technique index
- 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.10067
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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. 67
Glossary (2)
nunome-zōgan, tsuba
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nunome-zōgan
Decorative application of metal sheeting (generally of gold or silver) where the iron ground is first cross-hatched and the metal burnished on.
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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, but polished surface modelled in low relief with a large sheaf of rice and an ear of the same; traces of gold overlay (nunome) on some of the stems; on the back in sunk relief a peach? spray and the invocation of the Nichiren sect of Buddhists, Namu miōhō renge kiō, "Hail to the Scripture of the wonderful Law and the Lotus."
Signed (in swordsmiths' style): Sadayuki ([Japanese text]) saku.
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