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Tsuba with landscape
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with ito-sukashi decoration (‘thread-piercing’ openwork), and inlaid with gilt metal
- Dimensions
- 7 x 6.8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- Technique index
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cut,covered › metallized › gilded,
- 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.10601
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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. 601
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)
Below, in sunk low relief, are waves beating on a lake-shore (continued over the edge); a few stones here are encrusted in gilt metal; towards this, on the right, fly two small wild-geese in negative silhouette piercing, with two others (on the back one) in relief; above, in positive silhouette piercing are two sailing-boats visible through the mist.
The design echoes two of the Ōmi Hakkei, namely, Yabase no kihan, "Returing sail-boats at Yabase" and Katata no rakugan, "Geese alighting at Katata".
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