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Tsuba with gosan-no-kiri, or paulownia leaves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Artist/maker
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Shōami School (active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, hammered edge-up, and polished surface (migaki-ji), and gilt nunome-zōgan decoration
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- Technique index
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cut,covered › metallized › gilded,
- 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.10280.b
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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. 280 b
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)
Rounded oblong; irregularly hammered edge and irregular polished ground, pierced in the upper right corner with a circular hole filled by a paulownia (gosan no kiri) badge, the flowers and leaf-veins gilt in nunome; udenuki holes roughly pierced like holes in rockwork.
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