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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with clematis
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- sentoku, inlaid with shakudō wire, silver, and brass
- Dimensions
- 7.8 x 7.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › sentoku,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › brass
- 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.11131
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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. 1131
Glossary (3)
sentoku, shakudō, tsuba
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sentoku
A kind of brass made from an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin.
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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)
Mokkō; both faces and edge of the raised border covered with scrolling stems in shakudō wire inlay, the field with clematis vines in the same technique, the flowers, shown in perspective, inlaid in silver with brass centres.
A very similar guard in the Victoria and Albert Museum (from the Hawkshaw Collection) is signed Fujiwara no Kunimichi.
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