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Tsuba with New Year decorations and leaves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1st half of the 18th century
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, polished surface (migaki-ji), and inlaid with gold and gold wire
- Dimensions
- 7.1 x 7 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.10326
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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. 326
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)
Polished surface; slightly thickened at the edge; the front modelled in low relief with part of a shimenawa (New Year rope decoration) with fern and other leaves and straws (gold) as pendants; on the back, one pair of fern leaves (continued on the front) and two overlapping tachibana badges (orange with fan of leaves) in gold wire inlay.
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