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Lenticular tsuba with grasshopper, crickets, and autumn plants
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- shakudō, with punched nanako decoration, silver, and inlaid with gold; gilt copper ryōhitsu plugs, with punched nanako decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.9 x 7.4 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
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covered › metallized › gilded
- 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.11046
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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. 1046
Glossary (2)
shakudō, tsuba
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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)
Thick; slightly lenticular; the edge overlapped by a mass of leaves, in relief, belonging to the various autumn plants that issue from it on each face; these include chrysanthemum, aster, gentian, begonia, lespedeza, patrinia and eularia; the flowers are richly encrusted in gold, the inflorescence of the eularia and numerous dewdrops in silver; also in gold and silver are a grasshopper and two crickets; ground of fine nanako; rh. plugs of nanako copper-gilt. Signed: Terumasa [Japanese text] with kakihan [Figure] (1704-1772).
Japan Society, London, Loan Exhibition, 1905, no. R.43. An unusually fine piece of work, and, one may be permitted to hope, a genuine example by this famous master.
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