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Tsuba with nine-pointed star
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Material and technique
- iron, with hira-zōgan (flat inlay) in brass; kozuka-hole plugged with lead
- Dimensions
- 7.6 x 7.1 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.10143
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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. 143
Glossary (2)
kozuka, tsuba
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kozuka
The handle that holds the small knife called the kogatana.
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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)
Each face covered with grooves, in the main alternately wide and narrow, concentrically arranged in a nine-pointed star form; the five innermost grooves, of which the three next the seppadai are all narrow (as are also the three next the edge), are inlaid with brass.
Rough signature: Ki or Moku [Japanese text].
Kozuka hole only, lead-plugged.
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