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Aori-shaped tsuba with butterflies and susuki grass
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- obverse and reverse: copper, with punched decoration obverse: with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration reverse: with gold and silver
- Dimensions
- 6.3 x 5.2 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,
- 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.11084
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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. 1084
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)
Aori; "wire" edge; in rich iroye incrustation on the front, three butterflies; at the back a susuki plant, the leaves in relief or engraving, the stem in gold with silver inflorescence; ground with patches of punch-marks large and small. Signed in cursive: Inamoto [Japanese text] Masahiro (as the last [EAX.11083]) with kakihan (similar).
Not quite such good work as the foregoing set.
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