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Round tsuba with flying phoenixes

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Japan (place of creation)
    Japan (Akita) (possible place of creation)
    Date
    19th century (1801 - 1900)
    Artist/maker
    Shōami School (active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)
    Akita-Shōami (possibly active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)
    manner of Shōami Dennai (1698 - 1778) (armourer)
    Material and technique
    iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and polished surface (migaki-ji); tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
    Dimensions
    8.2 x 8.2 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    iron,
    copper
    Technique index
    forged,
    openwork,
    cut,
    polished,
    plugged
    Object type index
    tsuba
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by Sir Arthur H. Church, 1915.
    Accession no.
    EAX.10272

  • Further reading

    Koop, Albert James, The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba), 3 vols (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1929), no. 272

Glossary

tsuba

Location

    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

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

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

    Polished surface; a circular guard composed of four pointed ovals saltirewise embracing the seppadai; each oval pierced in negative silhouette with two repetitions (tête-bêche) of an antique brocade motive of a flying "phoenix" (hōō).

    Style of Shōami Dennai (early 17th century, but a 19th-century piece, as is shown by the special shaping of the tang-hole plugs).

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