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Tsuba with fan mounts and flowers
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (place of creation)
- Date
- late 18th century
- Artist/maker
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Shōami Masanori (active late 18th century) (armourer)Shōami School (active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)Kyō-Shōami (possibly active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with engraved decoration, and with gold nunome-zōgan decoration
- Dimensions
- 7 x 6.4 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- 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.10248.a
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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. 248 a
Glossary (2)
nunome-zōgan, 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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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)
Mokkō-aori; distributed on the two faces are two fan-mounts (kidney shaped or folding-fan), two square poem-cards and three long ones, all with their rich floral or diaper patterns worked in gold nunome; proceeding from them are simple leafy stems engraved.
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