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Tsuba with phoenix, flowers, and mon made from kiri, or paulownia leaves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Material and technique
- iron, with openwork decoration, and gold nunome-zōgan decoration
- Dimensions
- 7.3 x 7 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- 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.10802
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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. 802
Glossary (3)
nunome-zōgan, phoenix, 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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phoenix
Mythical bird known as hōō in Japan. The Islamic tradition appropriated the far-eastern iconography of the phoenix and used it to represent another mythical bird, the simurgh.
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tsuba
Japanese sword guard.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
A phoenix (hōō) below, a kiri badge and sparse karakusa scrolls above. Gold dots for the bird's eyes; its crest and the flowers of the badge gilt in nunome.
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