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Tsuba with amariō, or rain dragon, amid flowers
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Details
- Associated place
- 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
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
- 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.10799
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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. 799
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)
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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