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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with flowering plum tree
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- sentoku, with hammered-up edge, katakiri engraving (oblique chisel-cuts), silver, and inlaid with gold; ryōhitsu plugged with soft metal, probably shakudō
- Dimensions
- 8.9 x 7.9 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › sentoku,processed material › metal › gold,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.10919
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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. 919
Glossary (3)
sentoku, shakudō, tsuba
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sentoku
A kind of brass made from an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin.
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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)
Thin; mokkō; slightly irregular ground with katakiri engraving (a few gouge-cut lines) of a flowering plum-tree, the flower-centres in gold inlay and part of the moon's disk in silver; at the back a pendent spray of chrysanthemum and grasses; edge irregularly hammered up. Signed: Gotō Mitsuhisa [Japanese text] with kakihan [Japanese text].
Perhaps the same artist as that of No. 901 [EAX.10901], working in Ichijō style.
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