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Tsuba with peonies
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 19th century
- Artist/maker
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Umetada School (active 16th century - 19th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- shakudō, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and inlaid with gilt metal; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8 x 7.5 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
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cut,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.10213
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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. 213
Glossary (2)
shakudō, tsuba
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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour
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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)
Three large peony flowers with leaves (venation and other details gilt), within or slightly overlapping the plain narrow border.
E. Gilbertson Collection, no.1240. Closely resembles in design Nos. 536 and 540, and still more so No. 322; but the styles of all these are very different, the best being the iron Chōshū guard no. 322. Compare also a guard in the Furukawa Collection, no.105.
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