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Tsuba with sago palms
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 2nd half of the 18th century
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and gold nunome-zōgan decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, proably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 7.9 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,
- 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.11020
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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. 1020
Glossary (2)
nunome-zōgan, tsuba
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nunome-zōgan
Decorative application of metal sheeting (generally of gold or silver) where the iron ground is first cross-hatched and the metal burnished on.
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tsuba
Japanese sword guard.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Modelled in openwork with five sago-palms, the corms with touches of gold nunome; heavy rounded border with inner "wire" edge. Signed: Hōriūdō [Japanese text] Katsushige [Japanese text] with kakihan [Figure]. (Shinozaki K., son of Sh. Katsukuni, of Mito; end of 18th century.)
Ernest Hart Collection. This particular type of border is an Ichiriū characteristic.
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