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Tsuba with demon mask and scrollworkfront

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Tsuba with demon mask and scrollwork

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    19th century (1801 - 1900)
    Material and technique
    iron, with openwork decoration; kōgai-hole plugged with gold; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
    Dimensions
    6.9 x 6.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    iron,
    gold,
    copper
    Technique index
    forged,
    openwork,
    plugged
    Object type index
    tsuba
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by Sir Arthur H. Church, 1915.
    Accession no.
    EAX.10815

  • Further reading

    Koop, Albert James, The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba), 3 vols (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1929), no. 815

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tsuba

Location

    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

  • The A.H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba) by Albert James Koop

    The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)

    The front modelled in low relief with a demon-mask above and below, each between a pair of divergent "horns", which help to enclose on either side a panel of fine undercut scrollwork; this is, however, largely invaded by the wing-like ornament beyond each of the ryōhitsu; similar conventional ornament covers all other parts of the front, including the seppadai. The back is cupped and plain, except for the seppadai and winged ryōhitsu, which here rise to the normal thickness of the guard and are decorated as on the front. Kōgai-hole plugged with gold of basketwork surface.

    As with the last [EAX.10814], it is possible here to trace the influence of European weapons on the design.

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