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Lenticular tsuba with chrysanthemum flowers and leaves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- possibly 1834
- Material and technique
- iron, with ito-sukashi decoration (‘thread-piercing’ openwork), and gold nunome-zōgan decoration
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 7.2 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.10600
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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. 600
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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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Slightly lenticular; two chrysanthemum flowers in negative silhouette piercing, and a leaf in sunk flat relief on each face (identical design, reversed, in the same relative position); each leaf is touched with gold nunome in three places.
A guard in similar style, signed by the same artist and dated for 1834, is quoted by Hara as being in the Zuckerkandl Collection, Gleiwitz.
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