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Mokkō-shaped tsuba depicting a tiger running by a stream
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with hammered-up edge, iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration, and gold nunome-zōgan decoration; gilt metal ryōhitsu plugs; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8 x 7.3 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,
- 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.11069
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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. 1069
Glossary (2)
nunome-zōgan, tsuba
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nunome-zōgan
Decorative application of metal sheeting (generally of gold or silver) where the iron ground is first cross-hatched and the metal burnished on.
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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)
Mokkō; edge sharply hammered up; slight modelling, iroye incrustation and gold nunome (Y-punched); a running tiger near a small stream, beneath a pine-tree partly hidden by driving rain; at the back, waves below, and a branch of the same pine above; specially made gilt tang-hole plugs; rh. plugged with gilt metal of rough wood-grain surface. Signed: Masakage [Japanese text] with kakihan [Figure]. (Unrecorded.)
F. V. Dickins Collection.
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