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Tsuba with tadpoles swimming in a stream
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- obverse and reverse: copper, with punched ishime surface, and shakudō and gold obverse: inlaid with silver
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 6.9 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.11031
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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. 1031
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)
Faces slightly concave; on the front, below, a few encrusted lines of silver represent a stream with seven tadpoles (shakudō, gold eyes) all swimming in the same direction (to left); at the back three others (no silver); fine ishime ground of short horizontal lines. Signed: Ishiguro Masatsune [Japanese text]. (Perhaps Masatsune I, died 1828.) Kakihan [Figure].
Ernest Hart Collection, no. 165; then W. J. Stuart Collection and Seymour Trower Collection (part of lot 1558).
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