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Round tsuba with dragons and Precious Objects
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Material and technique
- brass, with engraved and punched decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.1 x 8.1 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › brass,
- 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.10828
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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. 828
Glossary
tsuba
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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)
Engraved on the front with an ascending and descending dragon and pearl amid cloud-forms, on the back with four compartments each containing one of the Eight Precious Objects (sword, lute, horn, and scroll); ground of small punched circles, with borderes of larger ones; leaf border round the whole design; kodzuka-hole perhaps original, small kōgai-hole cut later. Hirado work.
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