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Tsuba with ishimatsu, or chequerwork
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- sentoku, with multi-metal flat inlay (iro-e zōgan and hira-zōgan)
- Dimensions
- 6.9 x 6.4 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › sentoku
- 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.10880
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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. 880
Glossary (2)
sentoku, tsuba
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sentoku
A kind of brass made from an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin.
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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)
Rounded oblong; slightly lenticular; decorated with extremely minute and accurate mosaic work in iroye inlay, comprising on the front two large and six small squares of chequerwork (ishimatsu), and on the back of the same with one of the squares replaced by a disk of concentric bands; persimmon-wood plug in kōgai-hole.
A unique specimen. Japan Society, London, Loan Exhibition, 1905, no. R.71.
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