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Tsuba with chrysanthemum florets
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th - 19th century (1601 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- copper, shakudō, and shibuichi, layered and carved; copper kozuka-hole plug, with punched nanako decoration
- Dimensions
- 7.3 x 6.8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,processed material › metal › alloy › silver alloy › shibuichi,
- 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.11190
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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. 1190
Glossary (4)
kozuka, shakudō, shibuichi, tsuba
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kozuka
The handle that holds the small knife called the kogatana.
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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour
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shibuichi
alloy of copper and silver, patinated to a dull grey-green colour
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tsuba
Japanese sword guard.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Fifteen alternate layers of ruby copper and shakudō with two outer ones of shibuichi; modelled with 16 chrysanthemum florets, each voided, but the piercing done at so oblique an angle that, looked at directly, it is imperceptible, only the slopes of the hollows being seen, revealing the guri strata; red copper plug to kozuka-hole with treble nanako punching.
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