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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with wood grain decoration
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1800 - 1840
- Material and technique
- sentoku and shakudō, with engraved decoration, and inlaid with gold wire cloisonné enamel; kōgai-hole plugged with soft metal, probably shakudō
- Dimensions
- 6.8 x 6.1 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 › 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.11179
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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. 1179
Glossary (4)
cloisonné, sentoku, 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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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)
Oblong mokkō; sentoku centre of irregular profile surrounded by the shakudō, but having three narrow outlets to the edge; each face engraved with coarse vertical wood-grain and inlaid with gold-cloisonné panels and "Hirata curls." Signed: Hirata Harunari [Japanese text]. (Eighth Master, d. 1840.)
Japan Society, London, Loan Exhibition, 1905, no. S.10.
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