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Tsuba with blossoming plum branches

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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)

    On each face are branches of a blossoming plum-tree finely modelled in sharp relief, the flowers in silver with gold centres; edge heavily hammered up. Signed at the back: Hashimoto [Japanese text] Isshi [Japanese text], with kakihan [Japanese text], and dated on the front, Keiō II (1866), early spring (first month), kore wo saku; another of this artist's noms de ciseau, Yūshūsha [Japanese text] appears in raised characters on the field of the front.

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