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Lenticular tsuba with wood grain decoration and banana trees
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- possibly 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Material and technique
- shibuichi, with mokume decoration, shakudō, and gold; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 7.2 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shibuichi,processed material › metal › alloy › silver alloy › shibuichi,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.11126
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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. 1126
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)
Lenticular; both faces and the edge represent wood of emphasised grain, carefully worked to correspond from front to back; on this, in low relief of shakudō with a few touches of gold, are two banan-trees, three of the leaves continued at the back, one after passing through the kōgai-hole. Signed: Etchū Takaoka no jū ("resident of Takaoka in Etchū") Yasukawa [Japanese text] Kensei.
E. Gilbertson Collection, no. 387. There is a guard by this artist in the Victoria and Albert Museum; also one of the Furukawa Collection (no. 260; Wada, p.116), in the catalogue of which the name is wrongly given as Kansei.
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