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Lobed tsuba with kutsuwa, or horse-bit, mon of the Shimadzu of Satsuma
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1820
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and punched ishime surface
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 6.8 cm (height x width)
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cut,
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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.10759
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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. 759
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)
Eight-lobed, composed of a border of eight contiguous repetitions of the kutsuwa (horse-bit) badge of the Shimadzu of Satsuma, a ring enclosing a thin Geneva cross; the crosses themselves are rendered in alternatively positive and negative silhouette; fine ishime ground.
Rough signature: Hirata [Japanese text] ...tarō ...[Japanese text] kore wo tsukuru; dated Bunsei III (1820), first month. (Unrecorded).
De Ath Collection.
A character preceding shōgwatsu [Japanese text], "first month," appears to be [Japanese text] natsu, "summer"; it should, of course, be [Japanese text] haru, "spring."
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