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Tsuba with plants, butterflies, and chariot-wheels

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nunome-zōgan, tsuba

  • nunome-zōgan

    Decorative application of metal sheeting (generally of gold or silver) where the iron ground is first cross-hatched and the metal burnished on.

  • 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)

    Large oblong ryōhitsu with bilobate cusps at the outer angles; each face with very low-relief modelling and iro-e zōgan incrustation or nunome (parts of four chariot-wheels, chrysanthemums, susuki grass, and three butterflies).

    Except for the wheels, which are in true incrustation, the decoration appears to be in thick nunome, some of it copper, an unusual metal to be so treated.

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