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Tsuba with Saxifraga japonica 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; silver tang-hole plugs
- Dimensions
- 6.4 x 5.5 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.11075
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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. 1075
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; thin; rough ground; irregularly hammered-up edge: in iroye incrustation, on the front, a plant of Saxifraga japonica, at the back, a snail; specially made silver tang-hole plugs. Signed: Yoshimune [Japanese text]. (Tsukui Yoshimune, aged 47 in 1879, pupil of Ono Yoshinaga, himself a pupil of the founder.)
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