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Tsuba with stars and signatures
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Osaka prefecture › Osaka (place of creation)
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Artist/maker
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Tembō School (active 16th - 17th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with polished surface (migaki-ji) and stamped decoration
- Dimensions
- 9 x 8.5 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.10064
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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. 64
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)
Rounded oblong; polished surface covered with punch-marks, including the character [Japanese character] (tsukuru, "made") 19 times, a seal form of [Japanese text] (see signature) within a vase nine times, and four more or less faint versions of a rough [six-sided star, see Fig. 5] form; udenuki holes.
Signed (in swordsmiths' style): Naniwa no jū ([Japanese text], "resident of Ōsaka") Minamoto no ([Japanese text]) Sadakazu ([Japanese text]).
Hayashi Collection.
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