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Double mokkō-shaped tsuba with zigzags and a Buddhist invocation
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 18th century
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and hira-zōgan (flat inlay) in brass wire
- Dimensions
- 7.9 x 7.6 x 0.5 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.10146
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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. 146
Glossary
tsuba
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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)
Double mokkō (eight flat lobes); on each side of the seppadai a long lobed opening with a small oval one beyond it; the remaining surface (including the rounded edge) covered with fine brass inlay of wire in a similar design on each face, viz. at the top the Nichiren invocation (see no. 67 [EAX.10067]), at the bottom a large Chinese character [original character], raku ("pleasure") or gaku ("music"), and, in between, a diaper of parallel zigzags.
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