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Tsuba with chequer pattern
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 16th - 17th century (1501 - 1700)
- Artist/maker
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Kan’emon (active 16th - 17th century) (armourer)Myōchin School (active 16th - 19th century) (armourer)possibly after Nobuie I (died 1564) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration; copper ryōhitsu plugs, with punched decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 7.4 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.10072
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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. 72
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)
Nearly square, with notched angles; pierced with 24 square or oblong holes forming part of a six by six chequer; large oblong seppadai; ryōhitsu plugged with chrysanthemum-punched copper.
Signed (in swordsmiths' style): Nobuiye and, in cursive characters, Kanyemon saku [Japanese text] (possibly "made by K. to a N. design").
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