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Tsuba with figures in a landscape
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 19th century
- Material and technique
- iron, with gold nunome-zōgan decoration, and with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.4 x 7.9 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.10841
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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. 841
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)
Rounded oblong; modelled in fairly bold relief; on the front, men poling a boat with sqaure sail in silver, distant hills with large temple-buildings, belfry, and various small figures, two crossing a bridge; at the back, a continuation of the scene (the boat passing over the edge), with three flying wild-geese below; details in tinted gold nunome (Y-punch) and iroye incrustation; sd. and rh. contained within a fimbriated outline.
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