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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with inome, or heart-shapes
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- probably 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Artist/maker
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Shōami Morikatsu (died c. 1700) (armourer)Shōami School (active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)Iyo-Shōami (possibly active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- bronze, bevelled, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and with engraved and with cast decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.8 x 7.8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › bronze,
- 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.10254
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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. 254
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)
Bronze of dark brown patina. Mokkō; the border bevelled inwards, the field pierced with an inome (heart-shaped hole) at each angle; kozuka-hole enlarged to cloud form; surface of field gently depressed towards all edges; cast on each face with the same three badges (kiri, five-pointed star form, daki-gashiwa) in relief on a ground of finely engraved karakusa.
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