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Tsuba with Cissus leaves and karakusa, or scrolling plant pattern
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1862
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, engraved decoration, and gold nunome-zōgan decoration
- Dimensions
- 7.7 x 7.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- Technique index
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cut,
- 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.10743
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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. 743
Glossary (2)
nunome-zōgan, 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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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)
Modelled in openwork as five large tsuta badges, with a little karakusa of which the leaves are touched with gold nunome; the venation on the badges is alternately raised or sunk (engraved), according as each is showing its back or its face; narrow border.
This artist is unrecorded, but his name, which may be read Shōeki instead of Katsuyoshi, reminds one of that of Nakagawa Isshō [Japanese text], one of Gotō Ichijō's pupils (Group XXXIVa). The two may possibly be related.
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