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Round tsuba with openwork bands
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Artist/maker
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Myōchin School (active 16th - 19th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.1 x 8.1 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.10087
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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. 87
Glossary
tsuba
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tsuba
Japanese sword guard.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Very thick, double concave; curious openwork construction, the seppadai being united by four bars saltirewise to two concentric bands, the inner of semicircular section, the outer rectangular and perforated on the edge with four circular holes alternating with four long slots
Hawkshaw Collection, no.158; Behrens Collection, 2nd Sale, lot.1136.
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