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Tsuba with a mounted Tatar archer
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- possibly 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- sentoku, with punched ishime surface, katakiri engraving (oblique chisel-cuts), and iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration
- Dimensions
- 7 x 6.6 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › sentoku
- 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.10940
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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. 940
Glossary (2)
sentoku, tsuba
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sentoku
A kind of brass made from an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin.
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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; "wire" edge; in very flat or sunk relief with katakiri engraving and a little iroye incrustation is a mounted Tatar archer who, standing on his saddle, has just discharged his bow; at the back a boy fords a streamlet to retrieve the pigeon transfixed by the arrow; rocks and a pine-tree; fine ishime ground. Signed: Nagaharu with kakihan [Japanese text].
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