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Tsuba depicting a vixen being impregnated by the moon
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with hammered-up edge; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper obverse: with rubbed gilding, and inlaid with silver reverse: inlaid with brass, and with gold nunome-zōgan decoration
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 5.7 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › brass,
- 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.11076
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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. 1076
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)
Rounded oblong; hammered-up edge; rough ground; a vixen, in rubbed gilding, crouching near reeds and causing herself to be impregnated by the moon, part of whose disk, in silver inscrustation of brass with gold and nunome, are two plants in straw "overcoats". Signed: Toshitaka [Japanese text]. (Mori Nagataka, pupil of the founder.)
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