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Tsuba with overlapping squares
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and hira-zōgan (flat inlay) in brass wire
- Dimensions
- 7.7 x 7.8 x 0.3 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.10139
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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. 139
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; square with re-entrant angles; the seppadai and single oval hitsu united by flat bars to the border of open strapwork, which consists of two overlapping squares at each corner, with straight lines connecting them; traces of fine brass wire inlay on both faces of the border, mostly in parallel lines.
Much rusted and perhaps burnt.
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