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Lenticular tsuba with ferns
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Fukushima prefecture › Aizu (place of creation)
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Artist/maker
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Katsumune (active 18th century) (carver)possibly Shōami School (active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)possibly Umetada School (active 16th century - 19th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and gold wire nunome-zōgan decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 7.1 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
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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.10235
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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. 235
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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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Lenticular; pierced with three young fern-fronds (warabide) in negative silhouette, accompanied on each face by fern-like foliage in tinted gold wire nunome; near the top left is a small undercut hole pierced through the guard and enclosing a tiny loose ball (compare certain Namban guards).
Signed on the front with an illegible name, apparently with a kakihan, and on the back: ...Aizu no jū ("resident of Aidzu...") Katsumune [Japanese text] kore wo kizamu ("carved or chased this").
Katsumune, an unrecorded artist, was possibly a Shōami of Aizu (see Group XII).
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