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Description: | Iron, nade maru gata, gold fukurin mimi tsuba with copper sekigane. It has peacocks in nunome-zogan gold with shakudo and gold flowers. In Japanese mythology the peacock is the heavenly mount of the mother of Buddha, Maya; a peacock also accompanies the god-dess Benten. The peacock was also used simply for its adaptability as a rich decorative motif. The hirazogan peacock design ,shown to the right, was produced by Yoshioka Inabanosuke, who was working during the eighteenth century. The tsuba from the collection has a design which is more crudely executed than Yoshioka's, but shows an affinity with it. Consultation with the Nihon Bijutsu Hozon Kyokai at the Japanese Sword Museum in Tokyo has revealed some interesting facts. - The seal resembles the Chinese character for Japan. - The use of nunome-zogan on iron and an exotic design is suggestive of work produced during the Meiji period (1868-1912) or even later. -Also the experts at the Sword Museum believe that this is most likely to be a foreign made copy of a Japanese style design. The use of a Chinese character may suggest an origin in China, which would in turn suggest a later date of manufacture as a result of reacting to a demand for tsuba from collectors.
Bronze tsuba, with a flush gold inlay of a peacock. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Weapons Decorative arts Japanese Decorative Art Birds Japan | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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