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Tsuba with leaves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- possibly late 17th century
- Artist/maker
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Shōami Moritsugu (active 1625 - after 1695) (armourer)Shōami School (active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)Iyo-Shōami (possibly active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- obverse: iron, with engraved decoration reverse: iron, inlaid with silver wire
- Dimensions
- 8.8 x 8.4 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.10250
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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. 250
Glossary
tsuba
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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)
Nearly square, with inturned angles; narrow border with inward bevel; the front engraved with a symmetrical palmette of large leaves with tree-like stem in base; on the back the same design is inlaid in stout silver wire; the edge originally completely silvered in nunome.
There are signs that the design on the front was originally inlaid (or perhaps merely intended to be inlaid) like that on the back.
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