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Octagonal tsuba with nine different stamps
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Artist/maker
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Hōan School (active c. 1530 - c. 1900) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with hammered-up edge, and gold wire nunome-zōgan and stamped decoration
- Dimensions
- 8.6 x 8.3 cm max. (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.10071
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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. 71
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)
Rounded octagonal; in the front deeply punched with nine different stamps, including a coin of the Wadō era, a sparrow, a spray of bamboo, a maple-leaf, a cherry-blossom (back view), and various other flowers; the back shows four similar punchings (not coinciding with those on the front), including part of the coin, the leaf and two flowers (one double-struck). Subsequent to the punching the guard has been shaped up, the ryōhitsu and the tang-hole cut, and the edge slightly hammered up; while trails of karakusa in gold wire nunome have been added in various parts, including the edge.
Hayashi Collection. A guard of very similar make, showing impressions from the same dies (except the coin), was given by Sir Arthur Church to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1914.
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