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Tsuba with florets

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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)

    16-lobed; each face radially divided by incised lines (covering the seppadai) into as many flat florets; each face of each floret inlaid with a similar design of compound volutes in brass wire (continued over the edge), with here and there a leaf; in negative piercing near the bottom a device of a circle between two small quadrilaterals. Koike Style.

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