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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with peony flower and butterflies
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1802
- Material and technique
- shibuichi, with hammered-up edge, inlaid with silver and gold, katakiri engraving (oblique chisel-cuts), and iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay), with rubbed gilding
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 7.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › silver alloy › shibuichi,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shibuichi,
- Technique index
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covered › metallized › gilded
- 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.11067
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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. 1067
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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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Mokkō; hammered-up edge; inlaid below with part of a large peony flower in silver, the centre (pistil and stamens) encrusted in gold, the details engraved in katakiri, as are also several leaves projecting beyond it; above is a large butterfly in iroye incrustation with rubbed gilding; at the back, similarly treated, are the rest of the flower, more leaves, and a smaller butterfly. Signed: Iwamoto Nagashide [Japanese text] saku and dated Kiōwa II (1802), mid-spring (second month). (This is really Tsuchiya Yasuchika IV, of Group XL, a pupil of Iwamoto Konkwan who was adopted by a branch of the Tsuchiya.)
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