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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with cruciform shape and key pattern
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- bronze, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and punched ishime surface; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 8 x 0.7 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › bronze,
- 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.10187
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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. 187
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)
Mokkō; thick border with narrow plain edging on each face running round the heart-shaped piercing at each angle; within this on each lobe the border is concave, with stone-grain surface, finishing inwardly in a narrow band of key-pattern; the thin field has been cut away (originally?) leaving a cruciform reserve to support the seppadai; on the front the four arms are each filled by a seal-character (unread), on the back by the remaining portions of two dragons with clouds and sacred pearl, all being in flat sharply cut relief.
Hirado Work (strictly belongs to group XXIX).
Hawkshaw Collection, no.525.
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