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Description: | Sword guard, called a tsuba, made of shibuichi (copper and silver alloy). Mokkugata (four lobed shape) for a skizashi (short sword) with raised gold and copper decoration of Jusrojin, one of the popular Seven Lucky Gods of Japan, with his gnarled wooden staff and a fan on the ground before him. On the reverse is an inlaid figure of a recumbent deer in shakudo alloy and gold with copper antlers. The Stag is the constant companion of Jurojin in Japanese myths and legends, together they represent the hope for long life. Unsigned.
Technique: pierced
Material: metal
Material: copper silver alloy (shibuchi)
Material: gold
Material: copper
tsuba made in Japan, Asia, (1918.47/24). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.26501 | Go to resource |
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