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Mokkō-shaped tsuba depicting a sennin, or Taoist hermit, carrying a peony flower in a basket
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Material and technique
- obverse and reverse: copper; shakudō rim; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper obverse: with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration reverse: with iron and gold; iron with katakiri engraving (oblique chisel-cuts)
- Dimensions
- 6.9 x 6.9 x 0.7 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,processed material › metal › iron,
- 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.10954
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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. 954
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)
Faint mokkō; on the front, in modelling and iroye incrustation, is a sennin (Taoist hermit) carrying a peony flower in a basket; clouds above; at the back two thick transverse bars of iron (about 0.4" wide) have been let into the copper flush with its general surface, the latter being covered with fine horizontal grooving; on the bars are parts of a peony bush in katakiri engraving, with gold centres to the flowers; also on the lower bar is the signature; shakudō rim; a trifoliate kodzuka-hole, plugged, is imitated by engraving on both faces of the guard. Signed in seal form: Tōu.
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