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Tsuba depicting Minamoto Yoshitsune fencing with Yūjōbō
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- late 18th century - 1st half of the 19th century
- Associated people
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Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - 1189) (subject)
- Material and technique
- iron
- Dimensions
- 8 x 7.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- 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.10395
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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. 395
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)
Rounded oblong; in sharp sunk relief a rocky landscape with the young Minamoto no Yoshitsune being taught fencing by Yūjōbō, the King of the Tengu; at the back, conifers, clouds and a waterfall.
Signed: Chōyō HNJ Tomomichi (as 394 [EAX.10394]) with kakihan [Japanese text] (the latter a rare feature on Chōshū guards).
Detailed work, but somewhat coarse.
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