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

An unpublished catalogue of the A. H. Church collection of Japanese sword-guards (tsuba) by Albert James Koop.

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Introduction
Technical terms and processes
Iron guards by early swordsmiths and armourers
Iron guards by early tsuba-shi
Miōchin school (16th to 19th century)
Early incrustation (Taka-zōgan)
Early inlay (Hira-zōgan)
Gomoku incrustation and Mukade work
"Shingen guards"
Early guards in bronze (Yamagane)
Kaneiye school (16th to 18th century)
Umetada school (16th to 19th century)
Shōami school (early 17th to 19th century)
Higo schools (early 17th to 19th century)
Chōshū school (17th to 19th century)
Suruga school of Inaba (17th to 19th century)
Kinai school of Echizen (17th to 19th century)
Itō schools of Yedo and Odawara (17th to 19th century)
Akasaka schools of Yedo and Kiōto (17th-19th century)
Sunagawa school of Yedo (18th and 19th century)
Various provincial artists
Tsuji school of Yedo (mid-17th to 19th century)
Tamba province
Sado school
Kinai (17th to 19th century)
Satsuma schools (18th and 19th centuries)
Akao school of Echizen and Yedo (18th and 19th centuries)
Marubori and marubori-zōgan
Sōten school of Hikone in Ōmi province (17th to 19th century)
Namban work (exhibiting foreign influence), 17th to 19th century
Various Hizen work (including Hirado Island)
Jakushi school of Nagasaki (second half of the 17th to 19th century)
Nunome work of Nagasaki, Awa, Kiōto, etc
Hira-Zōgan work of Kaga and other centres
Gotō school (late 15th to 19th century)
Non-classical Gotō work
The Nara school: the Ko-nara (first half of the 17th to early 19th century)
Nara school: the Toshinga branch
Nara school: the Jōi style
Nara school: the Yasuchika branch
Nara school: the Hamano branch
Yokoya school (mid 17th to 19th century)
Mito schools: the Kōami, Tamagawa, Nukagawa, Uchikoshi and others
Mito schools: the Sekijōken
The Mito schools: the Ichiriū and Hirano
Mito schools: the Yegawa
Yanagawa school (main school)
Shummei Hōgen and the Tanabe
Kikuoka school
Sano school
Ishiguro school
Inagawa-Kikuchi school
Ōmori Shigemitsu
Kikugawa and Someya schools
Ōtsuki school of Kiōto
Iwamoto school
Tanaka (Tōriūsai) school
Tetsugendō school
Ichinomiya school
Various artists
Murakami school
Tsuji (Rinsendō) school of Kunitomo in Ōmi
Hirata school (17th to late 19th century) and enamel work in general
Kunitomo school
Mokume and Guri work
Lacquerwork

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Various artists

Tsuba depicting Chinese lion dancers (EAX.11125)

Lenticular tsuba with wood grain decoration and banana trees (EAX.11126)

Tsuba depicting the Chinese general Kuan Yü with his dragon spear (EAX.11127)

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

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