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Tsuba with gama-hada, or toad skin, surface

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tsuba

  • 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)

    Deeply cupped; the back plain, the front covered with blobs of silver of varying sizes fused in place (gama-hada or "toadskin" technique); udenuki holes. Signed: Sakura no kashin ("retainer of Sakura", i.e. of the Hotta, lords of Sakura in Shimōsa province) Toshir-hiro [Japanese text]. (Unrecorded.)

    Japan Society, London, Loan Exhibition, 1905, no.R.42.

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