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Tsuba with butterflies and aster
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, marubori carving, and gold nunome-zōgan decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8 x 8 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.10780
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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. 780
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)
Above and below the seppadai are two butterflies facing inwards, to right and left two erect sprays of aster, all within a bold scroll or tendril border; the insects and some of the leaves, the flower-centres and a bud, are richly gilt in nunome.
Compare the next [EAX.10781].
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