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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with flowers and plants
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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
- sentoku, inlaid with silver; ryōhitsu plugged with soft metal, probably shakudō
- Dimensions
- 8.9 x 8.2 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › sentoku,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō
- 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.10289
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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. 289
Glossary (3)
sentoku, shakudō, tsuba
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sentoku
A kind of brass made from an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin.
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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black 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)
Mokkō; thick; "wire" edge; each face realistically modelled in low relief with detached botanical subjects: - on the front, plum-tree, ground-bamboo, clematis and pink; on the back, aster, iris in water, pine-saplings, old pine-tree and lespedeza; flowers and other details in silver incrustation; edge similarly encrusted with a regular scrolling stem set with stellate blossoms.
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