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Lobed tsuba with butterflies, a toad, and a gourd-vine
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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tsuba 1st half of the 17th century
inlay 18th - 19th century (1701 - 1900)
- Artist/maker
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Umetada Myōshin (active 1st half of the 17th century) (armourer)Umetada School (active 16th century - 19th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration; ryōhitsu with gilt demi-plugs; lead kōgai-hole plug, with stamped decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.7 x 7.9 x 0.4 cm max. (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › lead,
- Technique index
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covered › metallized › gilded,
- 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.10197
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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. 197
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)
Five-lobed; encrusted in iro-e zōgan (on the front a butterfly, a toad, and a gourd-vine running over the left edge to the back, where a smaller butterfly appears); udenuki holes; gilt demi-plugs in ryōhitsu, also punched lead plug in kōgai-hole.
This is perhaps a plain old guard (17th century) with the iroye work added in the late 18th or early 19th century.
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