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Tsuba depicting a mounted court noble and a peasant
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1719 - 1786
- Material and technique
- shibuichi, with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration, and katakiri engraving (oblique chisel-cuts); tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.3 x 6.9 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shibuichi,processed material › metal › alloy › silver alloy › shibuichi,
- 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.11111
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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. 1111
Glossary (2)
shibuichi, tsuba
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shibuichi
alloy of copper and silver, patinated to a dull grey-green 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)
In faint sunk relief with iroye incrustation and katakiri engraving is a mounted court-noble approaching a pine-tree in a rain-storm and attended by a footman holding an umbrella over him; the design is continued over the edge to the back, where is also a peasant with hat and rain-cloak, walking in the opposite direction. Signed in small characters: Ichinomiya Echizen-no-daijō (title) Nagatsune [Japanese text] with kakihan [Figure]. (The founder.)
F. V. Dickins Collection.
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