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Tsuba with susuki grass, dewdrops, and stylized moon
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Material and technique
- sentoku, with cut and filed openwork decoration, punched ishime surface, and katakiri engraving (oblique chisel-cuts); tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.4 x 6.9 x 0.4 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › sentoku,
- Technique index
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cut,
- 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.10960
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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. 960
Glossary (2)
sentoku, tsuba
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sentoku
A kind of brass made from an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin.
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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)
Towards the base is a large circular hole (representing the moon) partly cut into by the sd. and also crossed by modelled leaves of susuki grass with a few dewdrops; these are continued on the solid part of the guard on each face in katakiri engraving together with other leaves and inflorescenes of the plant; ground of ishime (various sizes of round-headed punch). Signed: Yasuchika (largely defaced by the hammering round the tang-hole).
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