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Tsuba with peach and leaves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Artist/maker
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Chūyo (active 17th century) (armourer)Umetada School (active 16th century - 19th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- copper, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and inlaid with gold, silver, and shakudō wire
- Dimensions
- 7.2 x 7 x 0.3 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō
- 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.10215
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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. 215
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)
Copper of rather dingy patina. Thin; almost square, with rounded edges; pierced in negative sihouette with a peach, one of its leaves, and an oval hole; inlaid on both faces wth the stem and four more of the leaves in gold, silver and shakudō wire; back of seppadai stamped with a small signature: Chūyo [Japanese text] or Tadachika [Japanese text].
H. L. Joly has suggested that this might be Higo work (Group XIII). It is a fine guard, despite the remark about the patina.
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