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Octagonal tsuba with pine trees in driving rain
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1890
- Material and technique
- shibuichi, inlaid with gold
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shibuichi,processed material › metal › alloy › silver alloy › shibuichi,
- 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.11063
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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. 1063
Glossary (2)
shibuichi, tsuba
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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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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Octagonal; edge heavily hammered up; in soft relief are part of the trunks of two pine-trees and one branch, with slight touches of gold incrustation; driving rain expressed by raised lines of varying height and sharpness. Signed: Kazuo [Japanese text] kizamu [Japanese text] and dated mid-spring of a kanoye-tora year-probably 1890, February. (Unrecorded, but perhaps a pupil or imitator of Natsuo.)
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