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Tsuba with plants and animals
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Material and technique
- iron, inlaid with brass and brass nail-heads in high relief (taka-zōgan); border, inlaid with brass wire; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 8 x 0.4 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › brass,
- 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.10129
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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. 129
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)
Thin, with raised double-convex border; the ryōhitsu enlarged into two cloud forms of the same shape, one pointing up, the other down; the remaining field with brass incrustation (on the front clematis flowers, leaves and tendrils, with a butterfly above a dragonfly below; on the back, clumps of bamboo-grass with a tiger below, the brass for the latter wanting; "nail-heads" (on both faces); the border smooth and delicately inlaid with brass wire (largely missing) in different diapers of crossed lines.
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