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Tsuba with tea ceremony utensils
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- nigurome, with punched ishime surface, and iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration; shibuichi rim; ryōhitsu plugged with soft metal, probably shakudō; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.9 x 7.5 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › nigurome,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shibuichi,processed material › metal › alloy › silver alloy › shibuichi,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.10964
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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. 964
Glossary (3)
shakudō, shibuichi, tsuba
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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour
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shibuichi
alloy of copper and silver, patinated to a dull grey-green 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)
Each face boldly encrusted in iroye with the various utensils of the Tea Ceremony (brasier, fire-sticks, charcoal, loose lifting-rings, cauldron with its lid off, ring support, bamboo spatula and tea-whisk, tea-bowl, tea-jar in its brocade wrapping, and a rolled-up makimono); irregular ishime ground (fine sharp punchings); rim of dark shibuichi; large kodzuka-hole of chestnut shape.
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