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Tsuba with fundō weights and dragon medallions

Glossary (2)

nunome-zōgan, tsuba

  • 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.

  • tsuba

    Japanese sword guard.

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    • currently in research collection

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  • The A.H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba) by Albert James Koop

    The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)

    In the shape of the fundō or tradesman's weight (double-axe shape) with a curved bar of rounded section spanning the lateral hollows; covered with fine scrolls in nunome silver wire, interrupted on the front by two dragon medallions and two cloud-forms in gold, on the back by one cloud-form; edge silvered.

    Duplicate of a guard in the V. and A. M. The MS. Catalogue ascribes this and the next two examples [EAX.10849 and EAX.10849.a] to an undiscovered "Mitsuhiro of Chikuzen."

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