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Tsuba with blossoming plum tree

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)

    In very bold relief a plum-tree (continued at back), the large blossoms and buds in gold or silver-gilt, some with silver stamens; two clumps of bamboo grass and details of the trunk in incrustation of gold; very slender raised border (like a tire), plated, like the interiors and borders of the rh., with gold foil of roughened surface.

    Ernest Hart Collection, no. 161.

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