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Description: | Sentoku, nade maru gata, kaku mimi tsuba, the kogai hitsu ana has ategane. The relief design is a landscape which copies a Chinese style of painting. Nature and waterfalls feature as attributes upon which to meditate in the Zen culture of Edo Japan; they also have links with Confucian thought, which was the dominant principle which under pinned the Tokugawa Shogunate. The ura has an understated tree clinging to a rock, a symbol of old age and tenacity. The fir tree is also one of the three friends of winter and an integral part of the New Year Kodamatsu decoration displayed at that time.
A sentoku tsuba chiselled in low relief with a mountainous landscape. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Mountains Weapons Decorative arts Landscape Japanese Decorative Art Japan | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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