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Tsuba with stellate shapes and pine needles
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- shakudō, hammered-up, with polished surface (migaki-ji), stamped decoration, and with gold and copper
- Dimensions
- 6.8 x 6.4 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,processed material › metal › gold,
- 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.10911
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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. 911
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)
Quadrilateral, narrower above than below, and with inturned angles; edge heavily hammered up and diagonally striated; the polished ground with irregular patches of faint indentations and a number of stellate stampings supposed to depict snow-crystals, also a few pine-needles in gold and ruby cooper. Signed: Gotō Hokkiō Ichijō (as beofre) with kakihan [Japanese text].
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