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Tsuba with gourd vine and fruits

Glossary (2)

shakudō, tsuba

  • shakudō

    alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour

  • tsuba

    Japanese sword guard.

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    • 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)

    Very thick border of circular section with gourd-vine in relief on a billet-punched ground; the whole of this border is richly plated with gold; five of the spherical fruits being in silver; over the field, of fine nanako surface, run four trails of the vine, with some of the leaves in gold-veined shakudō and some of the fruits in copper or silver; kōgai-hole plugged with "cat-scratched" copper-gilt, the pattern apparently representing a garden-fence.

    De Ath Collection, lot no.450.

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