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Tsuba with blossoming plum branches
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- spring 1866
- Material and technique
- iron, with hammered-up edge, and with gold and silver
- Dimensions
- 8.6 x 7.8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,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.10916
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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. 916
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)
On each face are branches of a blossoming plum-tree finely modelled in sharp relief, the flowers in silver with gold centres; edge heavily hammered up. Signed at the back: Hashimoto [Japanese text] Isshi [Japanese text], with kakihan [Japanese text], and dated on the front, Keiō II (1866), early spring (first month), kore wo saku; another of this artist's noms de ciseau, Yūshūsha [Japanese text] appears in raised characters on the field of the front.
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