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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with snow crystals, ants, and leaves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Artist/maker
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Umetada School (active 16th century - 19th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- iron, with hammered-up edge, stamped decoration, and inlaid with gold and silver; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 9.3 x 8.5 x 0.4 cm (height x width x depth)
- 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.10234
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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. 234
Glossary
tsuba
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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)
Mokkō; edge heavily and irregularly hammered up; each face stamped with repetitions (seven and five) of a snow-crystal design; six ants (one on the upper edge) and groups of tiny leaves are encrusted in silver and gold respectively.
For the representation of snow-crystals in Japanese art, see remarks on the work of Gotō Ichijō (Group XXXIVd).
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