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Round tsuba with swastikas
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Material and technique
- iron, with hira-zōgan (flat inlay) in brass wire
- Dimensions
- 7.6 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
- 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.10157
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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. 157
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)
Covered to near the edge with fine brass wire inlay of a closed swastika diaper (different on each face) outwardly bordered by a circle and inwardly by the seppadai outline (which is oblong with re-entrant angles).
The inlay, although revealing the sunk grooves proper to the true hira-zōgan where the brass has come away, has at the same time a curious nunome look and the ground in several places shows a fine horizontal hatching. This, coupled with the unusual outline of the seppadai, inclines one to class the guard as Hizen work (Group XXXI).
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