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Tsuba with butterflies
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, with gold, and with gold wire nunome-zōgan decoration
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 7.9 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.10730
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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. 730
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)
Seven butterflies modelled in openwork within the narrow border; gold eyes and gold ring-spots on the wings; edge covered with eight different diapers (lozenge, swastika fret, shippō, etc.) in fine gold wire nunome.
The real name of this artist, whose work is by no means rare (compare the next six [EAX.10731, EAX.10736, EAX.10737, EAX.10738, EAX.10739, EAX.10740]), was, according to Wada (p.123), the more plebeian one of Nakamura Shinsuke [Japanese text]. His adopted surname Gotō is written with the same characters as that of the famous family of sword-mount makers (Groups XXXIII, XXXIV). -
The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Seven butterflies modelled in openwork within the narrow border; gold eyes and gold ring-spots on the wings; edge covered with eight different diapers (lozenge, swastika fret, shippō, etc.) in fine gold wire nunome.
The real name of this artist, whose work is by no means rare (compare the next six [EAX.10731, EAX.10736, EAX.10737, EAX.10738, EAX.10739, EAX.10740]), was, according to Wada (p.123), the more plebeian one of Nakamura Shinsuke [Japanese text]. His adopted surname Gotō is written with the same characters as that of the famous family of sword-mount makers (Groups XXXIII, XXXIV).
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