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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with pine cones and needles
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 18th century
- Material and technique
- copper, with punched ishime surface, and inlaid with shakudō and copper; shakudō rim; ryōhitsu with shakudō rims; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.4 x 8.3 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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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.10958
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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. 958
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; each face encrusted with a few pine cones and needles in shakudō and copper on an ishime ground; large rh. in the outline of demon-headed fronts of ridge-tiles, with shakudō linings added later (one of these partly broken away); shakudō rim (original).
This guard shows signs of having been many times refitted to different blades.
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