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Tsuba with mon of nine daimyō families
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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
- 7.2 x 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.10619
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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. 619
Glossary (2)
daimyō, tsuba
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daimyō
‘Feudal’ lord
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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)
Fret-pierced with nine badges irregularly disposed between the narrow rim and the seppadai and ryōhitsu; two are in negative silhouette, a chrysanthemum lozenge above and a clump of bamboo-grass below (the latter for Mori of Akō); among the rest are the cognisances of Sō, Shimadzu, Hachisuka, Nambu, Matsura, and Matsumaye - all very important diamiō families.
Red Cross Exhibition, London, 1916, Metalwork no.510, plate.cxxvi.
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