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Tsuba with chrysanthemums and oval holes
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Kyūshū › Ōita prefecture › Shōnai (place of creation)
- Date
- c. 1700
- Artist/maker
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Shōami Kiyonari (1646 - 1726) (armourer)Shōami School (active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)Shōnai-Shōami (possibly active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- sentoku, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and inlaid with gold or shakudō wire; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › sentoku,processed material › metal › gold,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,
- 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.10261
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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. 261
Glossary (3)
sentoku, shakudō, tsuba
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sentoku
A kind of brass made from an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin.
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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour
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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)
Slightly double-concave; radially pierced with six oval holes, their edges softly rounded off; each face inlaid with six (or seven) oval chrysanthemums in outline, in gold or shakudō wire.
Signed: Ushū no [Chinese character] jū ("resident of Dewa province") Shōami Kiyonari [Japanese characters]. (His surname was Susuki [Japanese text]).
The use of a Chinese character to express no before jū, as here, is a very unusual feature in signatures.
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