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Tsuba with 32 radiating lines
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Artist/maker
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Myōchin Munehisa (active 1825 - 1850) (armourer)Myōchin School (active 16th - 19th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron
- Dimensions
- 9.3 x 8.6 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
- 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.10084
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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. 84
Glossary
tsuba
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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)
Slightly cupped; built up, like a helmet, of 32 gores, the uppermost doubly flanged, the lowermost plain, the rest singly flanged; these are fastened together by three concentric rows of rivets (concealed, as they should be, on the front); seppadai reinforced by two oval plates.
Signed: Myōchin Ki no Munehisa [Japanese text] with kakihan [Japanese text].
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