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Tsuba depicting a sakaki branch with gohei, or papercut pendants
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th - 20th century (1801 - 2000)
- Material and technique
- obverse and reverse: copper, with katakiri engraving (oblique chisel-cuts), and inlaid with silver obverse: iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration in shibuichi, shakudō, and gold
- Dimensions
- 8.3 x 7.8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › silver alloy › shibuichi,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shibuichi,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,
- 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.11059
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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. 1059
Glossary (3)
shakudō, shibuichi, tsuba
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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour
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shibuichi
alloy of copper and silver, patinated to a dull grey-green colour
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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)
Combined aori and faint mokkō; in katakiri engraving is a branch of sakaki (a sacred tree, Cleyera japonica) with gohei (cut-paper pendants) in silver inlay, continued over the right edge to the back; in base an Okame mask in bold incrustation of shibuichi with shakudō details and gold tasselled cords. Signed on the field at the back: konomi ni ōjite ([Japanese text], "by special desire") Kongōsai [Japanese text] Getsuzan [Japanese text], followed by an incense-burner on a stand, marked hō or takara ([Japanese text], "treasure"). (Matsuo Getsuzan, pupil of Hideoki.)
Ernest Hart Collection. Rather in the "export" style.
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