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Octagonal tsuba with square piercings
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 18th century
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration plugged with shakudō and copper (formerly gilt); plugs with cut and filed openwork decoration; copper rim, plated with shakudō; gilt copper kozuka-hole rim; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.8 x 7.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,
- Technique index
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cut,covered › metallized › gilded,covered › metallized › plated,
- 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.11200
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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. 1200
Glossary (3)
kozuka, shakudō, tsuba
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kozuka
The handle that holds the small knife called the kogatana.
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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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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Octagonal; asymmetrically pierced with five square holes, three of them plugged with copper originally gilt, two with shakudō; each plug is pierced with five rows of "dots dashes", all differently combined; copper-gilt lining to kodzuka-hole (the other hole cut later); stout raised rim of copper plated with shakudō, which is worn through here and there, revealing the copper.
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