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Tsuba with vine leaves and grapes
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- iron; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 8.1 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- 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.10554
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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. 554
Glossary
tsuba
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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)
On each face an almost identical design (reversed) in faint sunk relief of two vine-leaves (Vitis labrusca) with a few grapes (one in negative silhouette) and tendrils (partly done by sawcuts); the kozuka-hole perhaps represents another grape; the kōgai-hole is lobed like the leaves.
Somewhat damaged by rust, but an attractive guard.
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