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Round tsuba with flowers and a conch shell
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 18th century
- Material and technique
- nigurome, with cut and filed openwork decoration, the surface polished (migaki-ji), with punched ishime, and the whole inlaid with silver nail-heads in high relief (taka-zōgan); shakudō rim; eatang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.8 x 7.8 x 0.4 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › nigurome,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō
- 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.10182
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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. 182
Glossary (2)
shakudō, tsuba
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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour
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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)
Polished surface with ishime graining; asymmetrically pierced with five devices (a chrysanthemum, a flower of five spiked petals, a conch shell, a cherry-blossom, and three holes forming with the kodzuka hole a large plum-blossom?); numerous silver "nail-heads"; shakudō rim. An early 18th century version of an older guard of yamagane.
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