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Tsuba with dragon amid clouds

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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)

    In low relief part of a design of a dragon amid clouds, continued at the back; on each face the design overruns the false "plug" in the "kodzuka-hole", which is solid with the rest of the guard and is pierced with three small circular holes of various sizes. Signed: Yanagawa Naotoki [Japanese text] with kakihan [Figure]. (Adopted son of Yanagawa Naomitsu.)

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