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Tsuba with heraldic crest of the Shinjō family
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1588 - 1631
- Artist/maker
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Umetada Myōju (1558 - 1631) (armourer)Umetada School (active 16th century - 19th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 7.9 x 0.4 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- 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.10192
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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. 192
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)
Flatly modelled as the badge mitsu-fuji-domoye, three racemes of wisteria, each of comma shape, with their heads impinging on the seppadai, leaving three tapering perforations.
The badge was borne by the Shinjō, a daimiō family. The guard, now plain, was perhaps originally decorated with gold nunome. Sir Arthur Church, in his manuscript catalogue, states that when he acquired it, the signature was invisible, as were many of the details, owing to being blocked up with rust.
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