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Tsuba with shippō diaper of interlaced circles and karakusa, or scrolling plant pattern
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and with silver and brass wire nunome-zōgan decoration; silvered edge; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 5.8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › brass,
- Technique index
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cut,covered › metallized › silvered,
- 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.10847
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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. 847
Glossary (3)
nunome-zōgan, shippō, 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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shippō
Lit. ‘Eight Treasures’ – cloisonné
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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; each face decorated alike in nunome silver and brass wire with portions of an oval-shippō diaper (partly pierced) and karakusa scrolls; edge silvered.
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