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Tsuba with mitsudomoye and mitsudomoye-kuyō mon

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 ground, encrusted with large badges in tinted gold, with slight modelling; on the front these comrpise a mitsudomoye-kuyō (nine groups of thee comma-shapes each, arranged as the kuyō or badge of nine circles or "stars"), also two single mitsudomoye; of the latter, the lower one is pierced and is repeated at the back, where it is accompanied by a second mitsudomoye-kuyō; shakudō nanako plugs to rh. Signed: Kawai [Japanese text] Hisatada [Japanese text] with kakihan [Figure]. (Unrecorded.)

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