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Tsuba with sago palms

Glossary (2)

nunome-zōgan, tsuba

  • nunome-zōgan

    Decorative application of metal sheeting (generally of gold or silver) where the iron ground is first cross-hatched and the metal burnished on.

  • 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)

    Surface similar to that of 307 [EAX.10307], but with rather more hollows; each face modelled with low rocks, amid which grow young sago-palms, touched with gold nunome.

    Signed: Kataoka Tadahiro [Japanese text].

    This and the previous guard, even apart from the signatures, are obviously closely related, but the artists are otherwise unrecorded. A note by H. L. Joly reads: "Shoami style" and "See Gilbertson 2". Wada (p.105) quotes under Chōshū (kawaji) a Kataoka Yoichi-yemon Tanesuke of Iwakuni (undated).

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