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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with star and leaf forms
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th - 18th century (1601 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, inlaid with brass, and with brass wire fastened to the surface with metal staples (mukade-zōgan); tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.8 x 8.4 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › brass,processed material › metal › iron,
- 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.10179
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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. 179
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)
Mokkō, with roped edge; the upper and lower lobe each with a transverse perforation, jagged on the inner edge; the right and left lobes each with a small one of lunar shape; the remaining surface on both faces encrusted with brass in stellate or leafy forms, with four short pieces of mukade work set saltire-wise, each on a spiral disk of brass wire.
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