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Tsuba with karigane, or flying geese
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Okayama prefecture › Bizen province (Fukuyama) (place of creation)
- Date
- c. 1800
- Artist/maker
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Masatsugu (active c. 1800) (armourer)Shōami School (active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- shibuichi, with cut and filed openwork decoration
- Dimensions
- 7.3 x 7.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › silver alloy › shibuichi,
- 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.10282
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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. 282
Glossary (2)
shibuichi, tsuba
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shibuichi
alloy of copper and silver, patinated to a dull grey-green colour
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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)
Dark shibuichi. Openwork design; a ring of 16 karigane (the heads carefully cut, with eyes and beaks), symmetrically set in addorsed pairs, unites the seppadai and kozuka-hole to the narrow bordser, the internal profile of which is cut to represent waves.
Wada quotes (p.243) a guard by Kawai [Japanese text] Masatsugu of F. in B. of the year 1665; this is clearly later than that date. Shibuichi is for some unexplained reason a very unusual material for an openwork design of this character.
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