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Tsuba with reeds, willow, and a spider
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- late 17th century
- Artist/maker
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Kataoka Tadayuki (active 1675 - 1700) (armourer)Shōami School (active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- obverse: iron, inlaid with shakudō and gold, and with gold nunome-zōgan and gilt decoration reverse: iron, with gold nunome-zōgan decoration rim: silver and shakudō
- Dimensions
- 8.1 x 7.8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,
- Technique index
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covered › metallized › gilded
- 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.10307
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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. 307
Glossary (3)
nunome-zōgan, shakudō, tsuba
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nunome-zōgan
Decorative application of metal sheeting (generally of gold or silver) where the iron ground is first cross-hatched and the metal burnished on.
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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)
Each face with a few irregular groups of rounded hollows; on the front a floating willow-leaf in incrustation of shakudō with gold-inlaid venation and gold nunome back; on it is a gilt spider; at the back broken reeds by a stream in faint modelling touched with gold nunome; four-sided kōgai-hole; rim half silver, half shakudō.
Signed: Bōshū Iwakuni no jū ("resident of Iwakuni in Suō province") Kataoka Tadayuki [Japanese text].
Compare the next [EAX.10308].
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