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Tsuba in the form of the mon of the Kiōgoku, lords of Marugame

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tsuba

  • 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)

    Square, being a solid representation of the badge nanatsu-wari-kata-yotsume of the Kiōgoku, lords of Marugame; all borders (except those of the seppadai and ryōhitsu) with slender shallow rebate.

    The badge consists of "four eyes" (yotsume) arranged in square form; each "eye" is a voided square, the opening being a square of one-third the width of the other; the spacing is also one-third the width of the eyes; hence the blazoning nanatsu-wari-kata, "seven-divided-shape", because the proportions of this badge are obtained by dividing each side of it into seven equal parts (this is not quite exactly observed in the present guard).

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