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Tsuba with chidori, or flying birds, and waves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- obverse and reverse: iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and gold reverse: with gilding
- Dimensions
- 7.8 x 7 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- Technique index
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cut,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.11080
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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. 1080
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)
Thin; rounded octagonal, with each side heavily hammered up; pierced in negative silhouette are three flying wave-birds (chidori), with legs, eyes and tongue in gold; on the front these are accompanied by turbulent waves (low relief) with gold spray-drops; at the back the flight is over a calmer stretch of water, with a drying net (partly gilt) on the shore in the foreground. Signed with a kakihan [Figure] (probably the same as [EAX.11078]).
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