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Tsuba with plum blossoms
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with gold or silver; hitsu plugged with soft metal, probably shakudō
- Dimensions
- 8.1 x 8.1 x 0.4 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,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.10957
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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. 957
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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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Daigaku shape; the front with seven, the back with three, double or single plum-blossoms in low relief; they are in various stages of development and are seen from various angles; three have gold or silver dots for the pistils; sd. and rh. of lightly cusped outline. Signed: Tada [Japanese text] Sadamasa [Japanese text] with kakihan [Japanese text], kore wo kizamu ([Japanese text], "carved this"). (Unrecorded.)
This shape imitates the outline of the sacred cake kagami-mochi or that of our cottage loaf (with a very big head and a hollowed base). It is characteristic of the school, and other examples signed Yasuchika are known, one in the Victoria and Albert Museum (decoration of Chinese characters), one in the Wada Collection (no.191, with larger plum-blossoms),, one in the Oeder Collection (no.1072, wave), etc.
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