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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with reeds and a crescent moon
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1868
- Artist/maker
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Shōami Katsuyoshi (1832 - 1908) (carver)Shōami School (active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- obverse and reverse: iron, with hammered-up edge, inlaid with shibuichi and gold reverse: inlaid with silver and shakudō
- 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 › shibuichi,processed material › metal › alloy › silver alloy › shibuichi,processed material › metal › gold,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.10306.a
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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. 306 a
Glossary (3)
shakudō, shibuichi, tsuba
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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour
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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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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Faint mokkō, with gently hammered-up edge; above is the cresent moon in gold, partly veiled by clouds in flat relief; below, in incrustation of shibuichi and gold, is a reed-plant, continued on the back, where there are also clouds below and two small flying birds (chidori) in shakudō, gold and silver.
Signed eactly as the last [EAX.10306], except that the date is "early summer" (fourth month) of the same year.
De Ath Collection. This and the previous guard [EAX.10306] are of very modern character, influenced by the fine work of the Ichijō School (Group XXXIVc).
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