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Tsuba with chrysanthemoid florets and dewdropsfront

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Tsuba with chrysanthemoid florets and dewdrops

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    Associated place
    Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    1st half of the 19th century
    Artist/maker
    Umetada School (active 16th century - 19th century) (armourer)
    Associated people
    probably Umetada Yoshitsugu (active 1st half of the 18th century) (named on object)
    Material and technique
    iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and inlaid with silver; silver nunome-zōgan edge; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
    Dimensions
    8.2 x 8 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    iron,
    silver,
    copper
    Technique index
    forged,
    openwork,
    cut,
    inlaid,
    plugged
    Object type index
    tsuba
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by Sir Arthur H. Church, 1915.
    Accession no.
    EAX.10202

  • Further reading

    Koop, Albert James, The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba), 3 vols (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1929), no. 202

Glossary (2)

nunome-zōgan, tsuba

Location

    • currently in research collection

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