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Round tsuba with flying phoenixes
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Artist/maker
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Shōami School (active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)Akita-Shōami (possibly active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)manner of Shōami Dennai (1698 - 1778) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and polished surface (migaki-ji); tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 8.2 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- 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.10272
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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. 272
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)
Polished surface; a circular guard composed of four pointed ovals saltirewise embracing the seppadai; each oval pierced in negative silhouette with two repetitions (tête-bêche) of an antique brocade motive of a flying "phoenix" (hōō).
Style of Shōami Dennai (early 17th century, but a 19th-century piece, as is shown by the special shaping of the tang-hole plugs).
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