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Tsuba with three musubi karigane, or knotted wild geese
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and gold nunome-zōgan decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7 x 6.2 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,
- 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.10757
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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. 757
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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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Border, of almost circular section, united to the seppadai and thin ryōhitsu (the latter edged with gold nunome) by three musubi karigane (not symmetrically disposed); some of the eyes in silver.
The musubi karigane or "knotted wild-goose" is an heraldic motive composed of a bird's head at the twisted junction of two tapering conventional wing forms. It is known in several other Satsuma guards.
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