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Tsuba with cherry blossoms
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 19th century
- Material and technique
- iron, inlaid with silver and gold; kozuka-hole plugged with soft metal, probably shakudō
- Dimensions
- 8 x 7.3 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō
- 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.11035
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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. 1035
Glossary (3)
kozuka, shakudō, tsuba
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kozuka
The handle that holds the small knife called the kogatana.
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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)
Rounded oblong; encrusted in silver (and a little gold) with a detached branch of cherry-blossom and a few fallen flowers and petals. Signed: Senshinken [Japanese text] Motoyoshi [Japanese text], with kakihan [Figure]. (Unrecorded, and perhaps rather Sekijōken work, Group XLIV.)
A fuchi-kashira (upper and lower scabbard-mounts) en suite with this guard was given by Sir Arthur Church to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1914.
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