Tsuba with yahadzu, or arrow feathers
Details
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Title
Tsuba with yahadzu, or arrow feathers
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Associated place
Japan (place of creation) -
Date
18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
sentoku, with cut and filed openwork decoration, punched ishime surface, and traces of gilding; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
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Object type
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Dimensions
9.2 x 8.9 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Bequeathed by Dame Jemima Church, in accordance with the wishes of her Husband, Sir Arthur H. Church, 1929.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EAX.11117
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Catalogue text
Thin; simply pierced at the right in negative silhouette with two crossed yahadzy (conventional arrow-feathers); ground of soft ishime (small "broken-headed" punch); both faces formerly gilt all over, but the gilding rubbed away except in the hollows of the ishime.
Hawkshaw Collection no.892 (described in the catalogue as 19th-century Itō work and the yahadzu as strips of paper.) Compare [EAX.10301].
Glossary of terms
sentoku
tsuba
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