Tsuba with blossoming plum branches

Title

Tsuba with blossoming plum branches
Associated place

Japan (place of creation)
Date

spring 1866
Material and technique

iron, with hammered-up edge, and with gold and silver
Material index

iron;

gold;

silver
Technique index

forged;

hammered
Object type

tsuba
Dimensions

8.6 x 7.8 cm (height x width)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Bequeathed by Dame Jemima Church, in accordance with the wishes of her Husband, Sir Arthur H. Church, 1929.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EAX.10916

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Catalogue text

On each face are branches of a blossoming plum-tree finely modelled in sharp relief, the flowers in silver with gold centres; edge heavily hammered up. Signed at the back: Hashimoto [Japanese text] Isshi [Japanese text], with kakihan [Japanese text], and dated on the front, Keiō II (1866), early spring (first month), kore wo saku; another of this artist's noms de ciseau, Yūshūsha [Japanese text] appears in raised characters on the field of the front.

tsuba

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