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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with inscription in cursive script
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Artist/maker
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Suzuki Yoshinori (active 19th century) (metalworker)Myōchin School (active 16th - 19th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with hammered-up edge, and polished surface (migaki-ji); tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.9 x 8.2 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.10070
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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. 70
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)
Mokkō; edge slightly hammered up; irregular, but highly polished surface; in low relief round the edge of the front (and continued on to the back) is an inscription in bold cursive characters; sharply cut udenuki holes, one square.
Signed Kashū Kinjō no jū ("resident of Kanazawa in Kaga province") Suzuki [Japanese characters] Yoshinori [Japanese characters], with kakihan [Japanese text] (compare to no. 91) [EAX.10091].
Hawkshaw Collection, no.2961. H.L.Joly in the Hawkshaw Catalogue, backed by the opinions of several Japanese experts, regards the inscription as illegible.
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