Tsuba with chrysanthemums and oval holes
Details
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Title
Tsuba with chrysanthemums and oval holes
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Artist/maker
Shōami Kiyonari (1646 - 1726) (armourer)Shōami School (active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)Shōnai-Shōami (possibly active 1601 - 1909) (armourer) -
Associated place
Shōnai (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1700 -
Material and technique
sentoku, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and inlaid with gold or shakudō wire; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
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Object type
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Dimensions
8.5 x 8 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.10261
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Catalogue text
Slightly double-concave; radially pierced with six oval holes, their edges softly rounded off; each face inlaid with six (or seven) oval chrysanthemums in outline, in gold or shakudō wire.
Signed: Ushū no [Chinese character] jū ("resident of Dewa province") Shōami Kiyonari [Japanese characters]. (His surname was Susuki [Japanese text]).
The use of a Chinese character to express no before jū, as here, is a very unusual feature in signatures.
Glossary of terms
sentoku
shakudō
tsuba
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