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Tsuba in the form of the mon of the Kiōgoku, lords of Marugame
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration
- Dimensions
- 7 x 7 cm (height x width)
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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.10752
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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. 752
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)
Square, being a solid representation of the badge nanatsu-wari-kata-yotsume of the Kiōgoku, lords of Marugame; all borders (except those of the seppadai and ryōhitsu) with slender shallow rebate.
The badge consists of "four eyes" (yotsume) arranged in square form; each "eye" is a voided square, the opening being a square of one-third the width of the other; the spacing is also one-third the width of the eyes; hence the blazoning nanatsu-wari-kata, "seven-divided-shape", because the proportions of this badge are obtained by dividing each side of it into seven equal parts (this is not quite exactly observed in the present guard).
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