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Tsuba with plants, butterflies, and chariot-wheels
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Artist/maker
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Umetada Shigeyoshi (active 17th century) (armourer)Umetada School (active 16th century - 19th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with nunome-zōgan decoration in metals including copper, and iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 8.6 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- 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.10193
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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. 193
Glossary (2)
nunome-zōgan, tsuba
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nunome-zōgan
Decorative application of metal sheeting (generally of gold or silver) where the iron ground is first cross-hatched and the metal burnished on.
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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)
Large oblong ryōhitsu with bilobate cusps at the outer angles; each face with very low-relief modelling and iro-e zōgan incrustation or nunome (parts of four chariot-wheels, chrysanthemums, susuki grass, and three butterflies).
Except for the wheels, which are in true incrustation, the decoration appears to be in thick nunome, some of it copper, an unusual metal to be so treated.
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