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Tsuba with chrysanthemum flower and animals
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- iron centre; silver border and edge, with punched ishime surface; hammered-up edge, with polished surface (migaki-ji); iron and silver ground with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration in gold, iron, shibuichi, and silver; shakudō ryōhitsu plugs; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper, with punched ishime surface
- Dimensions
- 8.4 x 8.2 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- Technique index
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processed material › metal › alloy › silver alloy › shibuichi,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shibuichi,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,
- 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.11066
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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. 1066
Glossary (3)
shakudō, shibuichi, tsuba
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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour
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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)
The iron centre is in the form of a chrysanthemum flower modelled with three layers of florets on the front, two layers (and two leaves [in shibuichi incrustation]) on the back; the wide silver border is concave and covered with rough ishime, though its hammered-up edge is polished; on one or both of these parts are encrusted a cobweb in gold, a ladybird in iron, a mantis and a butterfly in shibuichi, and another butterfly in silver, all with gold details; rh. plugged with shakudō vertically striated; specially made tang-hole plugs of ishime surface. Signed: Konkwan (as the last [EAX.11065]) with kakihan [Figure].
Perhaps a genuine work by the master.
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