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Tsuba with family crests of the Aoyama of Sasyama and the Hosokawa of Higo
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 18th century
- Artist/maker
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Umetada School (active 16th century - 19th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- copper, with diaper of inlaid shakudō wire; cash and blossoms of inlaid gold, silver, or shakudō; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 6.8 x 6.4 x 0.4 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
- 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.10220
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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. 220
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)
Rounded oblong; the field lenticuar within the wide double-convex border; the former is covered on both faces with asanoha diaper in shakudō wire inlay, the latter with scattered cherry-blossoms and two "cash" in inlay of gold, silver or shakudō; seppadai, for some reason not clear, slotted on left side.
Some of the inlay wanting. the cash (a bordered disk with central square hole) is a badge of the Aoyama of Sasayama; the cherry-blossom in the form here depicted belongs to the Hosokawa, Lords of Higo.
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