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Tsuba with peony flowers
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration; copper tang-hole plugs
- Dimensions
- 7.7 x 7.2 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- Technique index
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cut,
- 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.10693
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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. 693
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)
Fret-pierced in negative silhouette with five large peony flowers, voided and conventionally treated; specially made copper tang-hole plugs.
Signed at the back on an inlaid silver plaque: Takahashi [Japanese text] Masatsugu [Japanese text] with seal [Japanese text in a seal] (unread). (This master, a pupil of Akao Yoshitsugu III, early 19th century(?), was famous for guri work, Group LXVIII).
Cf.766 [EAX.10766].
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