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Tsuba with cherry blossoms
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 2nd half of the 18th century
- Artist/maker
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Umetada School (active 16th century - 19th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- sentoku, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and inlaid with silver and silver wire
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 5.7 x 0.3 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › sentoku,
- 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.10219
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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. 219
Glossary (2)
sentoku, tsuba
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sentoku
A kind of brass made from an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin.
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tsuba
Japanese sword guard.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Sentokudō (sentoku showing a mottled texture). Rounded lozenge shape; formed as two saddle-ends, above and below, enclosing the seppadai; on the front these are decorated with ten cherry-blossoms, solid or voided, in slightly raised silver inlay; back plain except for four constructional details of the saddle in silver wire.
Hawkshaw Collection, no. 221.
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