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Round tsuba in the form of a shippō diaper, with Luck Objects
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Material and technique
- sentoku, with cut and filed openwork decoration, punched nanako and ishime decoration, and champlevé enamel decoration
- Dimensions
- 7.3 x 7.3 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › sentoku,
- Technique index
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cut,
- 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.11150
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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. 1150
Glossary (3)
sentoku, shippō, tsuba
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sentoku
A kind of brass made from an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin.
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shippō
Lit. ‘Eight Treasures’ – cloisonné
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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)
In the form of a unit from the interlacing circle diaper known as shippō, the usual karahana device in the centre giving way to the sd. and rh.; the small circles at the intersections are filled with lavender enamel; the top left spandrel is omitted and its outer profile represented by a length of chain (imitated); the existing spandrels all have slender raised borders and show, in low relief enriched with champlevé enamel, various of the Luck Objects on grounds of fine punctuate ishime; the inner compartment on each face has a surface of double (concentric) nanako.
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