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Aori-shaped tsuba depicting Shōki in a rain storm
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1795 - 1841
- Material and technique
- copper, with katakiri engraving (oblique chisel-cuts), and iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration
- Dimensions
- 6.1 x 5.1 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- 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.11054
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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. 1054
Glossary (2)
Shōki, tsuba
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Shōki
Zhong Kui, or Shōki in Japanese, is a figure from Chinese folklore who appeared to the ailing 8th century Chinese Emperor Xuanzong in a dream and dispatched the demons that were haunting him. Shōki promised the Emperor that he would rid the world of demon
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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)
Thin aori, with bold "wire" edge; in katakiri engraving with iroye inlay is Shōki walking over a plank bridge in a rain-storm; at the back a tiny demon hides by clinging to one of the bridge-piers. Signed on the field at the back: Mitsuhiro (same as the last) with kakihan [Figure] and chiribamu ([Japanese text], "engraved").
Ernest Hart Collection.
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