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Tsuba depicting the god of luck, Jurōjin, with a picture of Mount Fuji
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Mount Fuji (subject)
- Date
- 1st half of the 19th century
- Material and technique
- shibuichi, with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration
- Dimensions
- 7.2 x 6.7 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › silver alloy › shibuichi,
- 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.10943
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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. 943
Glossary (3)
Jurōjin, shibuichi, tsuba
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Jurōjin
Jurōjin is one of the Shichifukujin or Seven Gods of Good Fortune. He is depicted as a wise old man and is often accompanied by a 1500-year-old deer; both are symbolic of longevity.
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shibuichi
alloy of copper and silver, patinated to a dull grey-green 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)
Very low or sunk relief with iroye incrustation; Jurōjin (see 933) [EAX.10933] showing a kakemono (roll-picture) of Mount Fuji to a kneeling Chinese boy; at the back, part of a pine-tree. Signed: Naohida [Japanese text]. (Perhaps Hamano Naohida, of Takata, Echigo, a pupil of Tōyama Naoyuki and of Iwama Masayoshi, of the Hamano School, Group XLI.)
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