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Hamidashi tsuba with leafy scrolls
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- iron, with hira-zōgan (flat inlay) in silver wire and brass
- Dimensions
- 6 x 4.3 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › brass,
- Technique index
- 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.10155
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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. 155
Glossary
tsuba
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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)
Hamidashi guard; covered (including the edge) with leafy scrolls in brass inlay, interrupted on each face by a chrysanthemoid badge in silver wire with brass border.
Hamidashi (literally "squeezed out", like glue from a crack) is the name for a dagger guard of minimum size (looking, when mounted, as if squeezed out between handle and scabbard-mouth). Such guards usually have a full-size oval kozuka-hole which actually cuts into the edge of the metal, as here.
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