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Lobed tsuba with butterflies, a toad, and a gourd-vine

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tsuba

  • tsuba

    Japanese sword guard.

Location

    • currently in research collection

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  • The A.H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba) by Albert James Koop

    The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)

    Five-lobed; encrusted in iro-e zōgan (on the front a butterfly, a toad, and a gourd-vine running over the left edge to the back, where a smaller butterfly appears); udenuki holes; gilt demi-plugs in ryōhitsu, also punched lead plug in kōgai-hole.

    This is perhaps a plain old guard (17th century) with the iroye work added in the late 18th or early 19th century.

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