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Tsuba depicting a property boat used in nō drama
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Artist/maker
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Umetada School (active 16th century - 19th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- obverse and reverse: iron obverse: inlaid with silver, and with gold nunome-zōgan decoration reverse: with silver and gold, engraved
- Dimensions
- 7.4 x 6.9 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,
- 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.10208
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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. 208
Glossary (2)
nunome-zōgan, tsuba
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nunome-zōgan
Decorative application of metal sheeting (generally of gold or silver) where the iron ground is first cross-hatched and the metal burnished on.
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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)
Rounded oblong; "wire" edge; the front modelled with one of the skeleton property boats used in certain nō dramas (large square sail with karahana diaper in gold nunome; angle-plates, halyards and tassels in silver); on the back, below, a few waves sunk below the field in engraved silver with gold spray-drops.
Almost forms a pair with a larger guard in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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