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Description: | Sword guard, called a tsuba, made for a katana (long sword). Made of iron, octagonal shape with gold inlay, decorated with a dragon and a Ho-O bird.
From the late 16th century onwards, eight sided tsuba generally represented the eight sided defences of Buddhist strongholds of the Sohei, warrior monks of Mount Hiei. Chinese inspired design.
This is a Japanese Namban school tsuba in the Chinese style. Chinese fashions in design entered Japan through contact with the Chinese trading Fleet at the Southern Kyushu Ports of Nagasaki, Yokohama and Hirado. Designs like this, adopted and made by Japanese artists, were popular in Japan because they were fashionably foreign' to the Japanese people. Unsigned.
Technique: pierced
Technique: inlay
Material: metal
Material: iron
Material: gold
tsuba made in Japan, Asia, (1918.47/81). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.26504 | Go to resource |
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