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Tsuba with clouds and butterflies
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- copper, with punched nanako decoration, and inlaid with gold; gold kozuka rim
- Dimensions
- 7 x 6.3 cm (height x width)
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- 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.11040
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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. 1040
Glossary (2)
kozuka, tsuba
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kozuka
The handle that holds the small knife called the kogatana.
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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)
Reserved in polished relief are two strata of clouds continued round the edge; on the back and front respectively are one and two butterflies in gold incrustation; gold-lined kodzuka-hole.
Hawkshaw Collection, no. 3208. Similar clouds appear on an Isshō fuchi-kashira given by Sir Arthur Church to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1914, and, as the MS. Catalogue suggests, this guard is probably to be attributed to the same artist (Ichijō School, Group XXXIV).
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