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Tsuba with chariot wheels, pine tree, and karigane, or flying geese
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 6.8 x 6.7 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- 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.10574
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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. 574
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)
Sparse openwork design including two fret-cut chariot-wheels below (one joined to the square-edged border by a tiny karigane), two pine-needles (?), and a carefully modelled pine-tree.
Perhaps not Itō work. The MS. Catalogue has a note: "Yoshida family of yedo, about 1840", but I have been unable to check this. The gold-inlaid signature is perculiar, as is also the spelling of Ōriūken with the character [Japanese text] instead of the usual [Japanese text].
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