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Tsuba with toad, gourd bottle, and bag
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- summer 1856
- Material and technique
- obverse and reverse: shibuichi; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper obverse: inlaid with silver and shakudō reverse: inlaid with silver, copper, and gold
- Dimensions
- 6.7 x 6.3 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shibuichi,processed material › metal › alloy › silver alloy › shibuichi,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,
- Technique index
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processed material › metal › gold,
- 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.10901
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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. 901
Glossary (3)
shakudō, shibuichi, tsuba
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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour
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shibuichi
alloy of copper and silver, patinated to a dull grey-green 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)
Shield-shaped, i.e. rounded oblong, with cusped base and mokkō top; the front modelled in low relief as a toad, its huge eyes rendered by silver and shakudō inlay; the plain back is encrusted below with a cloth bag in silver engraved [Japanese text] ju, "long life", and a gourd-bottle in copper and gold. Signed on the back: Gotō Mitsuhisa [Japanese text] and dated Ansei III (1856), summer. (Said to be a son of Gotō Mitsuhiro [Japanese text].)
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