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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with cherry flowers and snow heaps
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Artist/maker
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Umetada School (active 16th century - 19th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, gold foil, and gold and gold wire nunome-zōgan decoration; ryōhitsu plugged with soft metal, probably shakudō; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.4 x 7.8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō
- 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.10236
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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. 236
Glossary (3)
nunome-zōgan, shakudō, tsuba
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nunome-zōgan
Decorative application of metal sheeting (generally of gold or silver) where the iron ground is first cross-hatched and the metal burnished on.
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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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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Bold mokkō; narrow border joined to the sides of the seppadai by two curved square bars, thus ) ( [see Fig. 12], forming four open compartments, the upper and lower each partly filled by half of a large double-cherry-flower with gold nunome centre, its petals edged with squares of foil (compare the laquer technique kirikane); in each side compartment is a representation of a snow-heap, with dots, lines and groups of radiations in gold wire nunome; border and edge with portions of linear diapers in the same.
For the design, compare a guard in the Furukawa Collection, no.103, signed by a Bushū artist.
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