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Round tsuba with grape vine and squirrel
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1700
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, gold, and with gilt and gold nunome-zōgan decoration; ryōhitsu with soft metal demi-plugs, probably shakudō; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.4 x 8.4 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- Technique index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,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.10325
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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. 325
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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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Grape-vine on a bamboo trellis; with a small squirrel; trellis and grapes gilt in nunome; numerous gold dew-drops on the leaves; remains of a gold nunome pattern on the border; trifoliate ryōhitsu demi-plugged.
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