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Tsuba with figures in a landscape

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tsuba

  • 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)

    Bioconcave; fine modelling and rich iroye incrustation; on the larger guard [EAX.10909], two Chinese woodcutters and a boy with laden ox crossing a bridge over a stream; distant hills, trees, pagoda, crescent moon, etc.; on the other [EAX.10910], a mounted Chinese sage with man and boy attendant, trees and distant hills. Signed: Kōto no jū ("resident in the Imperial capital", i.e. Tōkiō after 1868) Hokkiō ([Japanese text] Buddhist title) Ichijō saku.

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