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Tsuba with shishi, or lion dog, and waterfall

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tsuba

  • tsuba

    Japanese sword guard.

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    • currently in research collection

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  • The A.H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba) by Albert James Koop

    The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)

    Very bold low-relief carving of rocks with a shishi above; at the back, rocks and a waterfall.

    This artist has unusually out-of-the-way names for a sword-furniture maker. The shishi (literally "lion") is more like a rather sturdily built Pekinese spaniel as commonly represented in Japanese art. It is, in fact, the beast so often wrongly called "kylin".

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