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Tsuba with gama-hada, or toad skin, surface
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Material and technique
- obverse and reverse: iron; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper obverse: inlaid and fused with silver
- Dimensions
- 6.7 x 6.2 x 1.1 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- 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.11186
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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. 1186
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)
Deeply cupped; the back plain, the front covered with blobs of silver of varying sizes fused in place (gama-hada or "toadskin" technique); udenuki holes. Signed: Sakura no kashin ("retainer of Sakura", i.e. of the Hotta, lords of Sakura in Shimōsa province) Toshir-hiro [Japanese text]. (Unrecorded.)
Japan Society, London, Loan Exhibition, 1905, no.R.42.
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