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Tsuba with clematis, susuki grass, and mon crests of the Katagiri family
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Artist/maker
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Shōami School (active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)
- Associated people
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Katagiri family (owner)Katagiri family (heraldry on object)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and inlaid with shakudō and gold; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 7.6 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,processed material › metal › gold,
- 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.10301
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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. 301
Glossary (2)
shakudō, tsuba
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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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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Slightly thickened towards the rounded edge; pierced with three yahadzu (two crossing above, a single one below) and encrusted on the front with trails of clematis, on the back with susuki grass (Eularia), in shakudō with gold flowers and tendrils.
The yahadzu represents a single feather from an arrow, and two of them crossed (as here and on No.1117 [EAX.11117]), with the barred markings rendered, form the badge of the Katagiri family. They have been incorrectly described as "pieces of paper".
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