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Tsuba with two butterflies
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and punched decoration
- Dimensions
- 7.6 x 7.3 cm (height x width)
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cut,
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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.10584
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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. 584
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)
Multilobate; two butterflies of identical design, facing up and down; forewings bordered with punched dots; no border to the guard.
If the insects were to right and left of the seppadai, they would form the badge of the Hōjō, lords of Sayama in Kawachi; if they formed a lozenge shape instead of nearly a circular outline, they would then be the badge of the Tatebe of Hayashida in Harima.
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