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Mokkō-shaped tsuba depicting a court noble looking at Mount Fuji
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- shakudō, with punched ishime surface, and iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 7.5 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.10987
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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. 987
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)
Mokkō; fine ishime ground with slight modelling and iroye incrustation; a Court noble, with a lady seated on the ground holding his sword, stands looking over a lake towards the distant peak of Mount Fuji; at the back, a charcoal-burner's furnace with smoke issuing from it; one specially made tang-hole plug. Style of Shummei Hōgen, a famous artist who died in 1859, aged 73.
This guard therefore really belongs to Group XLVIII.
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