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Tsuba with dragons and five Precious Objects amid scrollwork
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with openwork decoration, and gold nunome-zōgan decoration; seppadai with punched ishime surface; kōgai-hole plugged with soft metal, probably shakudō; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 5.9 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,
- 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.10810
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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. 810
Glossary (3)
nunome-zōgan, shakudō, 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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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour
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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)
Close minute scrollwork, amidst which are five of the Precious Objects (tama, shippō, pair of chōji, pair of scrolls, and pair of brocade-rolls), all gilt in nunome; the raised border, of medium width, has a row of small pearls on the edge, its faces showing in low relief three (or two) dragons, sacred pearl and cloud-forms; oblong seppadai with ogival ends, stone-grain ground, and two small holes with rosette borders.
A charming little dagger guard.
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