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Tsuba with chrysanthemoid florets and sword-blades
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Material and technique
- obverse and reverse: iron; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper obverse: partially covered in lacquer, and inlaid with aogai
- Dimensions
- 7.9 x 7.8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,organic › animal › shell › pearlshell,
- 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.11195
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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. 1195
Glossary (2)
lacquer, tsuba
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lacquer
Chinese and Japanese lacquer is made from the sap of the lacquer tree, which is indigenous to Eastern China. It is applied to wood as a varnish or for decorative effect. In India and the Middle East, lacquer is made from the deposit of the lac insect.
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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)
The front chrysanthemoid, with 16 sunk florets, each paved with aogai lacquer (comminuted pearl-shell); actually the intervals between the florets are ken blades with obtuse points, continuing across the sd.; a similar description applies to the back, except that both the lacquer and the chrysanthemum idea are absent, and there is an inner ring of [Figure] shapes linking blades together.
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