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Tsuba with standing egret
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- mid-19th century
- Material and technique
- sentoku, with punched ishime surface, and katakiri engraving (oblique chisel-cuts)
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 6.7 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.11055
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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. 1055
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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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Oblong, with the top and bottom slightly out-curved, the sides very much so; "wire" edge; the plain sd., on the front, is made to represent the body of an egret standing on one leg in a pool; katakiri engraving for the details of the bird, as also various dry reeds, and lines representing the water seen on both faces; ishime ground of large "broken-headed" punching disposed in horizontal lines (done before the engraving, but avoiding it.)
A guard of strong Ōtsuki character, although, according to the MS. Catalogue, "the companion guard, in the W. J. Stuart Collection, is signed Morichika, pupil of Yasuchika VI" (Group XL).
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