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Tsuba with blossoming plum tree
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Material and technique
- shakudō, with punched nanako decoration, silver and silver gilt, and inlaid with gold; rim and ryōhitsu rims plated with gold foil
- Dimensions
- 7.7 x 7.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
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covered › metallized › gilded,covered › metallized › plated
- 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.11026
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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. 1026
Glossary (2)
shakudō, tsuba
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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 very bold relief a plum-tree (continued at back), the large blossoms and buds in gold or silver-gilt, some with silver stamens; two clumps of bamboo grass and details of the trunk in incrustation of gold; very slender raised border (like a tire), plated, like the interiors and borders of the rh., with gold foil of roughened surface.
Ernest Hart Collection, no. 161.
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