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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with flowers and basketwork, and a removable border
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- copper, with punched ishime surface, and inlaid with shakudō, gold, and silver; shakudō border, with engraved decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 6.6 x 6.3 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,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.11094
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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. 1094
Glossary (2)
shakudō, tsuba
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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black 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)
The field is of mokkō shape with (removable) shakudō border of rounded oblong outline; the former is boldly encrusted with a spray of kiri, continued at the back, the leaves in shakudō, the racemes in gold and silver; fine ishime ground with patches of basketwork somewhat coarsely inlaid in gold and silver (this perhaps a later addition); the border is engraved with karakusa.
Hawkshaw Collection, no. 3353.
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