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Tsuba with amariō, or rain dragon, amid flowers

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    18th century (1701 - 1800)
    Material and technique
    iron, with openwork decoration, and traces of gold nunome-zōgan decoration; ryōhitsu rims with gold nunome-zōgan decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
    Dimensions
    7.9 x 7.8 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    iron,
    gold,
    copper
    Technique index
    forged,
    openwork,
    inlaid,
    plugged
    Object type index
    tsuba
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by Sir Arthur H. Church, 1915.
    Accession no.
    EAX.10799

  • Further reading

    Koop, Albert James, The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba), 3 vols (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1929), no. 799

Glossary (2)

nunome-zōgan, tsuba

Location

    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

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

    The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)

    A "smooth" dragon and three star-like flowers with nine-pointed leaves among minute karakusa scrolls; roughly oblong seppadai with border of shallow grooves pointing outwards; narrow ryōhitsu borders richly gilt in nunome; all the remaining surfaces, including the rounded border, but excluding the grooves and the scrollwork surrounding the dragon, are covered with the remains of gold wire nunome in a cross-hatched pattern.

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