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Tsuba with blossoming plum tree and chrysanthemum plant
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with hammered-up edge, and iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration; copper tang-hole plugs
- Dimensions
- 8 x 7.2 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- 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.11073
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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. 1073
Glossary
tsuba
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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)
Rounded oblong; slight modelling and bold iroye incrustation; on the front a plum-tree in flower, with rocks and bamboo-grass below; at the back, rocks with a chrysanthemum plant, and a dragonfly above; strata of haze inlaid with a powdering of gold dots; hammered-up edge; specially made copper tang-hole plugs. Signed: Hakumansha [Japanese text] Kudō [Japanese text] Nobutoshi [Japanese text] tsukuru [Japanese text]. (Unrecorded.)
Compare to [EAX.10872].
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