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Round tsuba with flowers and a conch shell

Glossary (2)

shakudō, tsuba

  • shakudō

    alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour

  • 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)

    Polished surface with ishime graining; asymmetrically pierced with five devices (a chrysanthemum, a flower of five spiked petals, a conch shell, a cherry-blossom, and three holes forming with the kodzuka hole a large plum-blossom?); numerous silver "nail-heads"; shakudō rim. An early 18th century version of an older guard of yamagane.

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