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Tsuba with dragon amid clouds
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Material and technique
- iron
- Dimensions
- 7.9 x 7.6 cm (height x width)
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- Technique 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.11023
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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. 1023
Glossary
tsuba
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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 low relief part of a design of a dragon amid clouds, continued at the back; on each face the design overruns the false "plug" in the "kodzuka-hole", which is solid with the rest of the guard and is pierced with three small circular holes of various sizes. Signed: Yanagawa Naotoki [Japanese text] with kakihan [Figure]. (Adopted son of Yanagawa Naomitsu.)
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