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Lobed tsuba with kutsuwa, or horse-bit, mon of the Shimadzu of Satsuma

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tsuba

  • tsuba

    Japanese sword guard.

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    • currently in research collection

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  • The A.H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba) by Albert James Koop

    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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