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Tsuba with mitsudomoye and mitsudomoye-kuyō mon
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, inlaid with gold, and with polished surface (migaki-ji); shakudō ryōhitsu plugs, with punched nanako decoration
- Dimensions
- 8.4 x 8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō
- Technique index
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cut,
- 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.11238
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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. 1238
Glossary (2)
shakudō, tsuba
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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)
Polished ground, encrusted with large badges in tinted gold, with slight modelling; on the front these comrpise a mitsudomoye-kuyō (nine groups of thee comma-shapes each, arranged as the kuyō or badge of nine circles or "stars"), also two single mitsudomoye; of the latter, the lower one is pierced and is repeated at the back, where it is accompanied by a second mitsudomoye-kuyō; shakudō nanako plugs to rh. Signed: Kawai [Japanese text] Hisatada [Japanese text] with kakihan [Figure]. (Unrecorded.)
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