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Tsuba with snow-covered treefront

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Tsuba with snow-covered tree

Glossary (2)

sentoku, tsuba

  • sentoku

    A kind of brass made from an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin.

  • tsuba

    Japanese sword guard.

Location

    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

  • The A.H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba) by Albert James Koop

    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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