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Round tsuba with yatsu-hashi, or eight-bridges, design
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and with engraved decoration
- Dimensions
- 8.3 x 8.3 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
- Technique index
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cut,
- 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.10033
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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. 33
Glossary
tsuba
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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)
Openwork design known as yatsu-hashi ("the eight bridges"), consisting of two iris-plants (kakitsubata) and a staggered line of eight small plank foot-bridges spanning the swamp where the plants grow; slight engraving finish on the three blossoms; slender rounded border.
A version of the design illustrated in the famous work Sōken Kishō, 1781, Bk.V, p.21. The reference is to an acrostic poem by Ariwara no Narihira (825 - 880), in which the initial syllables of the lines make up the work ka-ki-tsu-ba-ta.
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