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Mokkō-shaped tsuba depicting four of the Eight Views of Lake Ōmi
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Material and technique
- iron, inlaid with gold wire and silver, and with gold wire nunome-zōgan decoration
- Dimensions
- 7.2 x 6.6 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.10864
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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. 864
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 each face a landscape combined of four of the Eight Views of Lake Ōmi; these are: - on front, Awadzu no serian (glorious sunset sky at A.), Karasaki no yau (night rain at K.), Katata no rekugan (wild-geese alighting at K.) Yabase no kihan (returning sailboats at Y.), Seta no sekishō (evening glow at S.) and Mil no banshō (the evening bell at Mii-dera); and, on the back, Hira no bosetsu (lingering snow on Mt. Hira) and Ishiyama no shūgwatsu (the autumn moon at I,); sails and snow on Mt. Hira encrusted in silver; edge gilt; gold wire eding to sd. ad rh.
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