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Tsuba with figures in a landscape
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1868 - 1876
- Material and technique
- iron, with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration
- Dimensions
- 8.3 x 7.9 cm (height x width)
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- Technique 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.10909
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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. 909
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)
Bioconcave; fine modelling and rich iroye incrustation; on the larger guard [EAX.10909], two Chinese woodcutters and a boy with laden ox crossing a bridge over a stream; distant hills, trees, pagoda, crescent moon, etc.; on the other [EAX.10910], a mounted Chinese sage with man and boy attendant, trees and distant hills. Signed: Kōto no jū ("resident in the Imperial capital", i.e. Tōkiō after 1868) Hokkiō ([Japanese text] Buddhist title) Ichijō saku.
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