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Cupped tsuba in the form of a clam shell
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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 painting in black lacquer on a gilt ground
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 6.6 cm max. (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
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covered › metallized › gilded,
- 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.10088
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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. 88
Glossary (2)
lacquer, tsuba
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lacquer
Chinese and Japanese lacquer is made from the sap of the lacquer tree, which is indigenous to Eastern China. It is applied to wood as a varnish or for decorative effect. In India and the Middle East, lacquer is made from the deposit of the lac insect.
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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)
Deeply cupped; in the form of a clam-shell (one valve) as decorated for the game kai-awase (matching of poems written on shells), i.e. the hollow interior (the back) is painted in black laquer on a gilt ground with the design known as Asadzuma-fune (a Court noble and lady in a boat) and a poem relating to this subject; one of the ryōhitsu kidney-shaped and plugged with lead, the other fan-mount-shaped.
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