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Tsuba with cranes standing beneath a pine tree
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with gold; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 7 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,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.11034
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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. 1034
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)
Double-concave; finely modelled in low relief; on the front are nine cranes (gold eyes) standing in various attitudes beneath an outlying branch of pine; the better part of the tree and three more of the birds are seen at the back. Signed: Masabumi [Japanese text] with kakihan [Figure]. (Unrecorded.)
Seymour Trower Collection, part of lot 1463, pl. N.
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