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Tsuba with clouds, plum blossoms, and aoi, or hollyhock leaves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th - 19th century (1701 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- shakudō, with punched ishime surface, inlaid with gold, and with gold wire cloisonné enamel; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.3 x 7.1 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.11175
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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. 1175
Glossary (3)
cloisonné, shakudō, tsuba
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cloisonné
Decorative technique in which wires are attached to a metal body and coloured enamels are applied between the wires.
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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)
Each face with slightly raised inlay of gold and gold-cloisonné enamel; small conventional devices of cloud, aoi-leaf, mokkō, plum-blossom, and other forms, with "Hirata curls" and groups of dots; fine punctuate ishime ground, including the edge. Signed: Hirata Ichizō [Japanese text] Narisuke [Japanese text]. (Seventh Master, d. 1816.)
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