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Tsuba with sword and amariō, or rain dragon
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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, inlaid with silver and gold; edge inlaid with brass wire
- Dimensions
- 8.4 x 8.3 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- Technique index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › brass,
- 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.10279
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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. 279
Glossary
tsuba
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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)
On each face a slightly sunk eight-lobed panel, that on the front encrusted with a slender amariō (rain-dragon or "smooth" dragon) in silver with gold eyes and "feelers"; on the back, similarly curved almost into complete circle, is a "praying-for-rain" sword (amagoiken), the handle modelled in the iron, the blade in silver; edge inlaid with a continuous pattern [see Fig. 14] in brass wire.
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