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Round tsuba with mon crests of the Mayeda family
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- possibly c. 1780
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 7.5 cm (height x width)
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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.10351
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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. 351
Glossary
tsuba
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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)
Parts of six repetitions of an umebachi badge in various sizes, two solid, four voided.
The kōgai-hole (or rather its bevelled border) is a later addition, being tongued in place. The badge resembles that in No.195 [EAX.10195], but has ken blades between the bars; it was borne by the powerful Mayeda family, lords of Kaga province. The other was the badge of the Hisamatsu of Tako.
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