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Round tsuba with mon formed from cissus leaves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and inlaid with brass; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 7.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › brass,
- Technique index
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cut,
- 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.10617
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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. 617
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)
In negative silhouette below is a cherry-blossom badge and above part of a large chariot-wheel in strong perspective; on the front is also a triple tsuta badge encrusted in brass.
The three tsuta (groups of cissus leaves) were originally enclosed by a narrow brass ring and thus represent the badge of the Matsudaira of Obata.
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