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Tsuba with iris plants and bridges in a swamp
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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
- 7.9 x 7.6 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.10736
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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. 736
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)
Modelled in openwork as an iris-swamp, with four of the plants and several of the little plank bridges giving access to them; narrow border.
One of a pair of which Sir Arthur Church gave the other to the V. and A. M. in 1911.
It is instructive to compare the naturalistic treament of this guard with the more conventional drawing of No.33.
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