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Description: | This is a mokko gata, tetsu tsuba with an omote copper, takabori design of a prunus branch with flowers and buds. It has a kebori design of the gnarled tree stump of the tree with gold inlay. The ura has a takabori design of rice grains in the iron of the hira and copper and a silver moon amongst clouds. The images of the moon and rice are often found together in Japanese designs; mochi means both moon and rice cake. The mei, after consultation with the Sword Museum in Tokyo, has been veri-fied as being Tsuguhita.
Iron tsuba decorated with flower and a prunus branch. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Weapons Flowers Decorative arts Japanese Decorative Art Japan | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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