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Tsuba in the form of an oni, or demon
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Material and technique
- copper, with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration in metals including shakudō and silver
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 5.7 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,
- 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.10924
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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. 924
Glossary (3)
oni, shakudō, tsuba
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oni
A Japanese demon.
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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)
In the form of a demon (oni) sitting akimbo on his heels; his eyeballs are in shakudō, his fangs in silver; his body forms the sd., the spaces between it and his arms the rh. Signed: Nara Masayoshi (as 920 [EAX.10920], the remarks on which apply here also, there being almost a duplicate of this guard in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Salting Bequest).
Guards of this pattern, it is amusing to note, will usually stand on edge, i.e. on the claws of the demon's feet.
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