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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with grape vine
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th - 18th century (1601 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- copper, with punched nanako decoration, and with copper, silver, shakudō, and gold; soft metal ryōhitsu plugs with stamped decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.7 x 7.4 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.10901.b
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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 b
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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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Mokkō, with small side lobes; on each face a wide slightly raised border, joined to the sd. by four cusps, has a simple scrolling stem with leaves and grapes, partly relieved in the copper, partly in silver, shakudō and gold; this is on a primitive nanako ground, the enclosed spaces of the guard having a pattern of radiating broken lines resembling leather grain; chrysanthemum-punched plugs to rh. Coarse work; a few experimental patches of nanako on the front of the sd.
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