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Tsuba with clouds, plum blossoms, and aoi, or hollyhock leaves

Glossary (3)

cloisonné, shakudō, tsuba

  • cloisonné

    Decorative technique in which wires are attached to a metal body and coloured enamels are applied between the wires.

  • shakudō

    alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour

  • tsuba

    Japanese sword guard.

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    • currently in research collection

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  • The A.H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba) by Albert James Koop

    The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)

    Each face with slightly raised inlay of gold and gold-cloisonné enamel; small conventional devices of cloud, aoi-leaf, mokkō, plum-blossom, and other forms, with "Hirata curls" and groups of dots; fine punctuate ishime ground, including the edge. Signed: Hirata Ichizō [Japanese text] Narisuke [Japanese text]. (Seventh Master, d. 1816.)

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