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Tsuba with hand drums and music books
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- shibuichi, with punched ishime surface, and iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.4 x 6.7 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shibuichi,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.10971
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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. 971
Glossary (2)
shibuichi, tsuba
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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)
Dark shibuichi. Fine ishime ground with iro-e zōgan incrustation of four heads of hand-drums with their snares, and two music-books, one entitled Taisaza (written in kana), the other Rōshō ([Japanese text], "The Old Pine").
Hawkshaw Collection, no.3183.
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