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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with phoenixes amid clouds
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 19th century
- Material and technique
- shakudō, with punched nanako decoration, and inlaid with gold and copper
- Dimensions
- 8.1 x 7.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,processed material › metal › gold,
- 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.11029
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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. 1029
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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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Mokkō; on both faces and edge of the very wide raised border are two flying "phoenixes" (hōō) and cloudes in bold low-relief modelling and incrustation of gold with a little copper; on the field are the flowering branches of a paulownia tree in the same technique (no copper). Signed: Ishiguro Masayoshi [Japanese text] saku. (Pupil of Sano Naoyoshi and of Ishiguro Masatsune I; he loved to be about 70.)
F. V. Dickins Collection.
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