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Tsuba depicting a warrior's helmet and plum branch
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- iron, with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration in iron, gold, shibuichi, and copper
- Dimensions
- 9 x 8.7 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,processed material › metal › alloy › silver alloy › shibuichi,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shibuichi,
- 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.11241
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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. 1241
Glossary (2)
shibuichi, tsuba
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shibuichi
alloy of copper and silver, patinated to a dull grey-green colour
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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)
Faintly grained; massive; in bold incrustation of plain iron, gold, shibuichi, and copper, are a helmet and a plum-branch in flower, with a detached twig at the back. Signed: Shunriūsai [Japanese text] Tomohide [Japanese text] saku. (Unrecorded.)
The subject alludes to the hero Kajiwara Kagesuye, who, at the battle of Ikuta Forest (late 12th century), placed a plum-tree branch in his quiver (ye-bira), whence his nickname of Yebira-genda.
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