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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with maple leaves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with hammered-up edge, cut and filed openwork decoration, and iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration; kōgai-hole plugged with soft metal, probably shakudō
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 8 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,
- 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.11245
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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. 1245
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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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Mokkō; egde regularly hammered up; eight large maple leaves in bold iroye incrustation and a ninth in negative silhouette piercing. Signed: Kitaye ([Japanese text], "forging", i.e. the iron base) Hizen no kuni ("of Hizen province") Tadayoshi [Japanese text], and Chiribamu ([Japanese text], "carved", i.e. the decoration) tei ([Japanese text], "by his younger brother") Tadamitsu [Japanese text]; also inscribed at the back; Itomi [Japanese text]; Yasukoi [Japanese text] no atsuraye ([Japanese text], i.e. "to the order of I. Y.").
De Ath Collection. A fine piece of work.
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