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Aori-shaped tsuba with sea shells and flying birds
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1850
- Material and technique
- obverse: copper, with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration reverse: copper, with katakiri engraving (oblique chisel-cuts)
- Dimensions
- 8.7 x 8.1 x 0.3 cm (height x width x depth)
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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.10956
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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. 956
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)
Aori; in bold iroye incrustation on the front are a number of sea-shells, two small birds flying (chidori), and two distant sails; at the back, in a few lines of katakiri, is a big wave with breaking crest and a group of [Figure] forms above to represent calmer water. Signed: Yasuchika with kakihan [Japanese text]. (Perhaps Yasuchika VI, about 1850).
This guard and the previous [EAX.10955] come periously near to being classed with the flamboyant type of export guard made during the '70s and '80s of last century to please a supposed Western taste.
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