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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with grape vine

Glossary (2)

shakudō, tsuba

  • shakudō

    alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour

  • 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)

    Mokkō, with small side lobes; on each face a wide slightly raised border, joined to the sd. by four cusps, has a simple scrolling stem with leaves and grapes, partly relieved in the copper, partly in silver, shakudō and gold; this is on a primitive nanako ground, the enclosed spaces of the guard having a pattern of radiating broken lines resembling leather grain; chrysanthemum-punched plugs to rh. Coarse work; a few experimental patches of nanako on the front of the sd.

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