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Tsuba with seashells amid water
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th - 18th century (1601 - 1800)
- Artist/maker
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Iijima Shigemitsu (active 17th - 18th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with hira-zōgan (flat inlay) in brass, and with traces of black lacquer; inlay engraved
- Dimensions
- 7.7 x 7.3 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
- 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.10156
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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. 156
Glossary (2)
lacquer, tsuba
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lacquer
Chinese and Japanese lacquer is made from the sap of the lacquer tree, which is indigenous to Eastern China. It is applied to wood as a varnish or for decorative effect. In India and the Middle East, lacquer is made from the deposit of the lac insect.
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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)
Each face inlaid finely engraved brass (carried over the edge) with a number of sea-shells and groups of parallel lines representing water. Traces of added black lacquering on the front.
Signed: Gōshū Hino ("of Hino in Ōmi province") Iijima [Japanese text] Shigemitsu [Japanese text] saku.
Hawkshaw Collection, no.14.
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