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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with autumn flowers
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- nigurome, with punched nanako decoration, and gold; soft metal tang-hole plug
- Dimensions
- 7.8 x 7.2 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › nigurome,
- 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.10902
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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. 902
Glossary
tsuba
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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)
Mokkō; on each face a spray of the autumn flowers aster, lespedeza, gentian and eupatorium, in low flat relief on a nanako ground; the flowers and some of the leaves are gilt, as are also the border and the edgings of false rh.; these last are not strictly holes, as what appear to be plugs in them (with coarse nanako surface) are really part of the solid guard.
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