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Description: | Copper nademaru gata, gold fukurin mimi tsuba with a takabori design of a mounted samurai in gold takazogan, this ko-sukashi tsuba is in the Soten style, but not the more usual marubori or Hikone bori technique. The subject is most probably Sasaki Takatsuna crossing the Uji River. In 1184 Yoshitsunes army was attacking the army of Kiso Yoshinaka. On the reaching the river many of his samurai wanted to show their bravery by being the first across the river. Kajiwara Kagesue arrived first, but Sasaki told him the girth of his saddle was loose, he stopped to adjust it leaving Sasaki to be the first across the river.
Copper tsuba, with a samurai riding by a river. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Rivers Weapons Decorative arts Japanese Decorative Art Japan Horse riding | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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