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Tsuba in the form of a mamori mon
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration
- Dimensions
- 6.4 x 6.3 cm (height x width)
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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.10653
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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. 653
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)
Modelled in openwork as an heraldic badge, a variety of the motive known as mamori ("talisman"); two thick bars in saltire, one continuing above as a stout whip-thong(?) with forked end; from the circle uniting the bars protrude at right and bottom to fan-shaped ichō leaves and at left a double scroll.
Another version of this motive forms the badge of the daimiō families of Ikeda and Tachibana.
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