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Octagonal tsuba with tiger in a stormy landscape
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- obverse and reverse: shakudō, inlaid with gold obverse: inlaid with shibuichi
- Dimensions
- 6.9 x 6.3 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shibuichi,processed material › metal › alloy › silver alloy › shibuichi,
- 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.11086
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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. 1086
Glossary (3)
shakudō, shibuichi, tsuba
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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour
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shibuichi
alloy of copper and silver, patinated to a dull grey-green colour
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tsuba
Japanese sword guard.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Rounded octagonal, with incurved sides; "wire" edge; a tiger (shibuichi incrustation with gold details) among rocks (low relief with gold herbage); he looks back snarling at the driving rain through which in faint relief are visible a few branches of willow; fine powdered gold inlay above; at the back, turbulent waves in low relief below, with gold spray-drops, and rain and a cloud above, the latter with gold powdering. Singed on the field: Kōriūken [Japanese text] with gold-inalid seal Tōkō [Japanese text]. (Unrecorded.)
F. V. Dickins Collection. The tiger's shoulder partly blocks out the kōgai-hole.
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