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Tsuba with sago palms
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Artist/maker
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Kataoka Tadahiro (active c. 1800) (armourer)Shōami School (active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with gold nunome-zōgan decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.7 x 7.6 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,
- 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.10308
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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. 308
Glossary (2)
nunome-zōgan, 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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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)
Surface similar to that of 307 [EAX.10307], but with rather more hollows; each face modelled with low rocks, amid which grow young sago-palms, touched with gold nunome.
Signed: Kataoka Tadahiro [Japanese text].
This and the previous guard, even apart from the signatures, are obviously closely related, but the artists are otherwise unrecorded. A note by H. L. Joly reads: "Shoami style" and "See Gilbertson 2". Wada (p.105) quotes under Chōshū (kawaji) a Kataoka Yoichi-yemon Tanesuke of Iwakuni (undated).
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