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Tsuba with asanoha, or stylized hemp leaves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Associated people
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Manabe family (owner)Manabe family (heraldry on object)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, with hira-zōgan (flat inlay) in brass wire
- Dimensions
- 7.7 x 7.3 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
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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.10136
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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. 136
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)
Pierced with a shippō device below (oval enclosing curvilinear lozenge); remaining surface on each face covered with asanoha (diaper of six-pointed stars) inlaid in fine brass wire (which also outlines the seppadai); this is interrupted by three (on the back two) repetitions of the maru ni mitsubiki badge of the Manabe (a ring spanned by three horizontal bars) in brass strip inlay.
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