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Tsuba with dragonfly, praying mantis, wheel, and waves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with engraved decoration
- Dimensions
- 8.4 x 7.7 cm (height x width)
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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.11258
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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. 1258
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)
Rounded oblong; irregular ground, "wire" edge; in very faint relief at the top is a large dragonfly, its body continued over on to the back; below, in faint engraving, are, on the front, a praying mantis, at the back, a chariot wheel and waves. Signed: in cursive: Michiyoshi [Japanese text] tsukuru [Japanese text]. (Unrecorded.)
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