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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with Indian lotuses and radial striations
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Material and technique
- iron, with traces of gold and silver nunome-zōgan decoration, and with champlevé enamel decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.2 x 7.1 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.10831
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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. 831
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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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Mokkō; on the front the sd. is of irregular outline, and from it spring scrolls with "Indian lotuses" in champlevè relief originally covered with gold or silver nunome, the ground filled with unpolished green enamel; the back is plain except for the remains of radiating lines (like Amida-yasurime) in silver wire nunome (covering the sd.). Hirado work.
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