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Tsuba depicting the Chinese hero Chao Yün galloping through smoke
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1786
- Material and technique
- shakudō, with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration, and engraved decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.2 x 7 x 0.4 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.10980
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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. 980
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)
In fine modelling and iroye incrustation chao Yūn (see 928 [EAX.10928]) gallops his horse through the smoke of the bomb (shown in engraving at the back). Signed: Hamano Kuzui (as 978 [EAX.10978]) Jakkwan Jūshichi-sai ([Japanese text], 'a youth of seventeen'). (This would be Kuzui II in the year 1786.)
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