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Tsuba with florets
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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
- 8.1 x 7.7 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.10153
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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. 153
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)
16-lobed; each face radially divided by incised lines (covering the seppadai) into as many flat florets; each face of each floret inlaid with a similar design of compound volutes in brass wire (continued over the edge), with here and there a leaf; in negative piercing near the bottom a device of a circle between two small quadrilaterals. Koike Style.
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