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Tsuba with fundō weights and dragon medallions
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with gold, and with silver wire nunome-zōgan decoration; silvered edge
- Dimensions
- 7 x 6.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- 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.10848
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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. 848
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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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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