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Tsuba with monkey and hawk
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- iron, inlaid with copper, sentoku, gold, and gold wire, and with traces of gold nunome-zōgan decoration
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 8.2 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- Technique index
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processed material › metal › alloy › sentoku,
- 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.10347
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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. 347
Glossary (3)
nunome-zōgan, sentoku, tsuba
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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.
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sentoku
A kind of brass made from an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin.
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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 concave between edge and seppadai; in low relief on the front a monkey on a rock by a stream waving to two others on an outlying dead tree-branch; their faces are in copper, and leaves and stems of a creeper are in copper, sentoku and gold; at the back, a hawk on a pine-tree stump, with three sails and water in the distance; creeper, bamboo-grass and riggings in gold wire inlay; edge formerly gilt in nunome.
Signed: CHNJ Hachidō Tomonobu [Japanese text] saku. (Unrecorded; but a guard formerly in the Gaskell Collection, lot 1635, is signed by the same, with the additional name Gorozayemon.)
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