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Tsuba with key pattern and seaweed-like sprays
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Artist/maker
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Shōami School (active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, engraved; perforations with iron demi-plugs; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.4 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.10278
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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. 278
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)
Four jar-shaped perforations, crosswise; the ground lightly engraved on the front with seaweed-like sprays, on the back with groups of curved radiating lines; the edge and the border on each face engraved with key-pattern.
The seppadai increased in height by iron demi-plugs, necessitated by the upper and lower jars having been cut too far in.
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