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Aori-shaped tsuba with leaves and flowers
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- possibly 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- obverse and reverse: iron, with engraved gold nunome-zōgan decoration; tang-hole plugs with silver nunome-zōgan decoration reverse: inlaid with silver
- Dimensions
- 6.8 x 6.2 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,
- 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.10857
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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. 857
Glossary (2)
nunome-zōgan, tsuba
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nunome-zōgan
Decorative application of metal sheeting (generally of gold or silver) where the iron ground is first cross-hatched and the metal burnished on.
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tsuba
Japanese sword guard.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Aori shape; lenticular, with "wire" edged cusped to resemble bamboo, from which three groups of leaves proceed in gilt relief on each face; the Kenjō work is strictly confined to the front and consists of pine-trees (tinted gold) with slightly modelled branches; the back has similar branches of plum, with numerous buds and six open flowers encrusted in silver; rounded tang-hole plugs imitated in silver nunome. Signed similarly to No. 856 [EAX.10856].
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