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Aoi-shaped tsuba with fret diaper and ken, or double-edged swords
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- shakudō, with punched ishime surface; o-seppa with polished surface (migaki-ji), and inlaid with gold wire; ryōhitsu plugged with soft metal, probably shakudō
- Dimensions
- 8 x 7.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,
- 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.10893
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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. 893
Glossary (2)
shakudō, tsuba
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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour
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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)
Imitating a Court guard of full aoi type with its ō-seppa are each spanned by a cross of four gilt ken (ancient double-edged sword) blades, and show besides on the ppolished surfaces an interrupted fret diaper in gold wire inlay; the surface of the main body just showing beyond them is ishime (stone-grain) and the facetted raised border is gilt; the ken-blades invade the sd.
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