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Tsuba in the form of a coiled snake
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1870
- Material and technique
- sentoku, with gold and silver
- Dimensions
- 8.4 x 7.3 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › sentoku,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.11220
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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. 1220
Glossary (2)
sentoku, tsuba
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sentoku
A kind of brass made from an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin.
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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)
Irregular outline; boldly modelled almost in the round as a coiling snake, the head (at top right) with open jaws poised to strike downwards; eye and tongue gold, teeth silver. Signed: SeppÅ-shujin [Japanese text] saku. (Unrecorded.)
All large collections seem to include one or more guards similar to this and the next [EAX.11221] - bearing a variety of signatures, if any. "Export" work.
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