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Tsuba with snow-covered tree
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Material and technique
- sentoku, with hammered-up edge, punched ishime surface, and inlaid with silver; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.6 x 7 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › sentoku,
- 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.11051
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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. 1051
Glossary (2)
sentoku, tsuba
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sentoku
A kind of brass made from an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin.
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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)
Irregular profile (paint faint mokkō); edge irregularly hammered up; on the front, in delicate modelling is a tree-trunk with a branch weighed down by snow (silver incrustation); at the back, the tops of other trees similarly treated; close punctuate ishime ground. Signed: Jōshū ("Yamashiro province", i.e. resident of Kiōto) Tsuki ([Japanese text], for Ōtsuki [Japanese text]) Mitsuoki [Japanese text] "copying a drawing by Seiseisai [Japanese text]."
Ernest Hart Collection, no. 186.
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