Browse: 10610 objects
Tsuba depicting Ono Michikaze in a landscape
-
Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- iron, with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration in metals including gold; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.3 x 6.7 cm (height x width)
- Material index
-
processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
- Object type index
-
arms/armour › koshirae › kodogu › tsuba
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by Sir Arthur H. Church, 1915.
- Accession no.
- EAX.10922
-
Further reading
Koop, Albert James, The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba), 3 vols (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1929), no. 922
Glossary
tsuba
-
tsuba
Japanese sword guard.
Location
-
- currently in research collection
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Publications online
-
The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
In bold iroye incrustation is the Japanese statesman Ono Michikaze (wrongly called Dōfū, 896-966), wearing Court dress and holding an umbrella; he stands by a stream watching a frog trying to leap up to the leafless branches (gold) of a willow on the opposite bank; scene continued at the back; rain depicted by fine raised lines.
The incident is on all fours with that of Bruce and the spider.
© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum