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Aoi-shaped tsuba
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1869
- Material and technique
- iron
- Dimensions
- 7.4 x 6.8 cm (height x width)
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- Technique 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.11256
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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. 1256
Glossary
tsuba
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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)
In shape similar to the last [EAX.11255], but with the angle-openings replaced by solid groups of disks; no other decoration. Signed: Tenshi no nichi-gwatsu saku on-tachi no tsuba wo utsusu ("copying the guard on the Emperor's Sun and Moon tachi") Andō [Japanese text] Yoshihide [Japanese text] and dated "a lucky day in the first month of Meiji II (1869)". (Unrecorded.)
I have no information as to the tachi (sword) here referred to.
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