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Description: | This nademaru gata, tetsu tsuba was made for a wakizashi. It has uchikaeshi mimi. It has both kozuka and kogai hitsu ana. The nakago ana has tagane ato. The design is a hare in shakudo with a silver moon and takazogan gold highlights. The ura has six horsetails in shakudo and gold. The hare is a familiar animal in Japanese folklore. Often the hare is shown in conjunction with the moon or pounding rice. Since Mochi means both full moon and rice cake there is a natural association which is exploited. Here the hare runs over wa-ter. The ura has horsetails implying the presence of water. There is a myth that the female hare conceives by running on the waves on the eighteenth day of the eighth moon if the sky is clear.
Tsuba depicting a running hare and a full moon. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Hares Animals Weapons Moon Decorative arts Japanese Decorative Art Japan | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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